Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 229, Ed. 1 Monday, July 12, 1920 Page: 2 of 6
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Our Best Economists Figure the Purchasing Power of the American Dollar of Today Has Depreciated
Two-Thirds in Value During the Past Three YearsYou Can Easily Arrive at The Value of Your Dollar
IT IS WORTH JUST WHAT YOU CAN EXCHANGE IT FOR AND NO MORE!
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ipmpare the Purchasing Porter of Your Dollar in 1917 and Nojh?
1920
L- 22c tier nound Now 75c Der Dound
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Butter . . . . . . . . . . 20c per pound i . . ... ... . . . . .
Shoes
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Eicon . .
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$4.00 per pair. . ...... Now $12.00 per pair
7c per pound ....... Now 28c per pound
Day Labor . . f . . $125 per day . ..... ... .'..'.' Now $5.00 per dayd."
1920
Domestic .f5 10c per yard 4. Now 35c per yarq J Limburger Cheese 18c per pound . . - ..... Now 85c p
Cotton Picking 50c per hundred Now $2.00 per hundreii e i Flour M ... I l.r $1.50 per sack. ... . Now$4.00
Cotton Flannle .... Ai 9c-per yard. v. Now 28c per yard. 1 " Fire Wood $3.00 per load. T. .. ... ... . Now $10.00
1917
Cranberries 8c per pound Now 25c per pound
Carpenter's Scale '. . . . . 30c per hour . Now 90c per hour
Cheese Cloth 3c per yard Now 15c per yard
Chicken Feed $1.75 per hundred Now $5.00 per hundred
Lumber $2.75 per hundred . . . . . : . . ; . . . ... Now $115.00 per hundred
Limburger Cheese 18c per pound ..;.. - ..... Now 85c per pound
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The One: Interest on bank loans. ' ' r "
The Other: The tWng we are talldng about. ' -
The First: You pay the same rate of interest at your bank that you paid in 1917. . That. is
because the rate is fixed by law. Your banker1 deserves more interest but he is not
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allowed to collect it.
jFhe Second: The other item of which the price is unchanged can not be called a commo
dity. It is mere than a commodity. It is something not created by man but for man's
use. It is and has been the prize material possession throughout all the ages and yet
its present price is the same that it was on the local market in 1917.
HAVE YOU GUESSED WHAT THIS ITEM IS?
If not just think of the one material thing that every real man in the world craves most &or
possess. A material possession s greater than any thing else in all the world. A thing
the possession of which makes the owner a more desirable neighbor a more patriotic citi-
zen and a better man. A thing thatnever decreases in'valuej but has since the dawn: of civ
ilization steadily increased. A' splendid conservative investment always - and selling at
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of this thing should have gone up but it hasn't yet. It will though just as soon as men stop
" to' think. Its price must reach the same comparative level as the price of your Dollar. When
' "this happens it means that for every Dollar .invested now; you. will deceive a value of three
to one or 200 per cent profit.
Then you ask; what is this thing this most" conservative investment in all the world
all chances of loss eliminated all -gamble squeezed out and yet offering a net profit of
200 per cent? -
Let; us answer you by saying that the article is all around you you see it every day
-touch it every day unconsciously wish for it every day. Your neighbors possess it. Your
most successful business men invest in it heavily1 and it is the basis for the very best secur-
ity on earth for loans.
Now what is it? Just one guess should put you right. Guessed it? Certainly. We
knew you would. Its Land! And specifically speaking' the land we have in mind is a
Brownwood Heights Homesite.
NEW IMPROVEMENTS IN BROWNWOOD HEIGHTS
The Texas Power & Light Company are now installing over two miles of electric
light lines in Brownwood Heights. - :
The City of Brownvood is extending its city water mains a distance of some seven
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Your Dbllar today is worth . only one-third in purchasibg power of alniost yjrytliinj else
-will buy just as much of tus filing as cineLof your1 reassure enough 100 Jericet valtfe dol-
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krs would in '1917. As the value of purcha sing power of your Dollar werdownrMpnce
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thousand feet in Brownwood Heights.
' - The Brownwood Gas Companyhas ordered and now has on the road all material for
thelaying of nearly two miles of natural gas mains in Brownwood Heights all work to be
completed before cold weather this Fall.
THESE IMPROVEMENTS WILL PLACE CITY WATER ELECTRIC LIGHTS
AND NATURAL GAS IN EASY REACH OF EVERY LOT IN BROWNWOOD
HEIGHTS.
. Another important improvement now under way but not finally completed ispav-
ed streets from the business section to Brownwood Heights and payed streets in the Heights
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ANNOUNCEMENT: In order to secure the above men-
tioned improvements the Brownwood Heights Land Com-
1 pany has gone to an immense expense. To meet this -expense
we have decided to sell enough lots to cover the
amount of the expense incurred. Sale commences July
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Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 229, Ed. 1 Monday, July 12, 1920, newspaper, July 12, 1920; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth343652/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.