I'm having a hard time reading this receipt, but I thought some of you might be able to decipher it. From a collection of paper items given to me as a gift recently.
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Receipt, Charles Schreiner Company, Kerrville, 1913
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The top part is all groceries--apples, baking powder, soda, salt,sugar,starch amd maybe 5 gallons of oil? 5 pounds of small nails.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of the items purchased, the customer was overcharged.
ReplyDeleteThe first line of the bill totals
$6.35, not $7.35.
First Line:
ReplyDelete5 gallons of oil, 2 or 4 sacks of meal (obviously, I'm guessing), coffee, beans
Second Line:
Ev apples, soda, starch, baking powder
Third Line:
100 dram sugar, LP salt, salt
Fourth Line:
5 units (box, sack, etc.) of 6 penny nails
(after the number "5", the writer has written a very fancy/sloppy, old English, "6." The next character is a "d" representing "penny."
Fifth Line:
bill of merchandise hereto attached
Note: The totals are inaccurate by one dollar.
After looking at the bill a second time, I believe that I was incorrect when I said the first line totaled $6.35, instead of $7.35.
ReplyDeleteThe sax meal (or whatever it is) appears to be $1.60, rather than 60 cents.
If so, then the first line total is correct.
Sorry for the misguiding statements.