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20 APRIL 1901 · the Independent's standing table of prices
The town's table survives as a price list: the Walkerton Independent of 20 April 1901 prints the "Walkerton Market — corrected every Friday noon by Stephens & Grider, the Walkerton Milling Co., and J. A. Neal & Co." — the town's merchants certifying the prices themselves, weekly, as a standing feature. The items reached price the farm table of 1901: eggs at 12 cents, butter at 14, wheat at 74, corn at 37. The correcting firms are their own evidence: Stephens & Grider — the founder's store in its successor firm — and the Walkerton Milling Co., operating in Walkerton in 1901, which is this build's proof of the town's flour mill in the new century: before the town ate bread, it milled flour, and the mill's name stood at the head of the market report. The full series — the report ran weekly for years — is the settler for any deeper course of the town's prices, and it stands named as such in the gaps register.
Sources:
- Walkerton Independent, 20 April 1901 (the Walkerton Market report; Stephens & Grider; the Walkerton Milling Co.; J. A. Neal & Co.; the prices as printed) — the paper of record, OCR at transcription strength.