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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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E. True's cure for inflation (August 26, 1907) (lemmy.world)

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[–] verity_kindle 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

5 dogs for that price, that's $1.25, which was close to the average daily wage for an unskilled laborer. He took a larger proportion of that wage home than he would today, but that still seems expensive for outdoor mystery meat on a scrap of stale bread. Remember how we went down the rabbit hole about Upton Sinclair and the canned "boneless chicken"? Good times. EDIT: fixin my punctuation.