One girl told me she generally made thirteen hundred a day--seventy-eight cents.
After that, eight cents a day more, the next year; and so continue until the apprenticeship expires.
He says, making the figures is most difficult; and he showed me one figure he asked but twenty-eight cents for, that he stated it would require a day and a half to make.
The entire pay for that quarter, three trips and expedition, was seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-eight cents.
Finally, if this ounce letter were sent by the All-Red route, that is by the British packet to Halifax and thence over British soil to York, the postage charge would be four dollars and forty-eight cents.
It provided for the conveyance of periodical magazines between Canada and Great Britain, charging for its services the unusually low figure of eight cents a magazine.
Each copy sent to Three Rivers or to any points between sixty and one hundred miles from Montreal would cost the subscribers forty-eight cents.
If you are paying your assistant twelve dollars for a forty-four-hour week, you are giving her twenty-eight cents an hour.
The postage required to send that same five-pound chicken from here to Chicago, one hundred and fifty miles, is eight cents.
Contrariwise, you drop your grade of pie down equal to mine, an' put your price down to eight cents.
The Doolittle pie entered the field at eight cents; three for twenty cents.
It can be bought in New York now for seven or eight cents a quart; and if the children have plenty of seconds bread, or oatmeal porridge, and a cup of milk, at meal times, they will be strong and rosy.
Half the cost of the Roast Chicken, stuffed, and the Baked Potatoes, will be thirty-eight cents.
How could that be possible, if the strychnine cost him fifty-eight cents, and he sold for sixty?
It's something I really should not do, but under the circumstances I will let you have anything up to twenty yards off this web for eight cents.
And when it had gone to eight cents, eight and a half, and at last nine, his creditors had ceased to worry him.
Barton caught the figures on the unpaid bill--seventy-eight cents.
Eight cents, I apprehend, is as well proportioned to the other taxes as can be devised.
In the Eastern States it entered into the diet of the poorer classes of people, who were, from the decay of trade and other adventitious circumstances, totally unable to sustain such a weight as a tax of eight cents would be upon them.
Is not, therefore, eight cents disproportioned to the rates fixed, or intended to be imposed on other articles?
I showed that the women who make shirts made only fifty cents a day, and yet the proprietor made on every shirt twenty-two cents profit on an investment of twenty-eight cents.
The material for one of these shirts costs twenty-three cents, the making five cents--a total of twenty-eight cents.
They retail these shirts at fifty cents apiece, making a net profit of twenty-two cents on an investment of twenty-eight cents for a few weeks' time.
It was the slip which had fallen from the Cabot, Bancroft and Cabot letter and was a check drawn to his order for fourteen thousand, three hundred and ten dollars and thirty-eight cents, his share of the Tinplate "melon.
On March 15th, you came personally to this office and exchanged that check for five thousand dollars in cash and another check for ninety-three hundred and ten dollars and thirty-eight cents.
I would never think of buying a waist for one dollar and ninety-eight cents.
I might be able to do it, Laura, but if you bought a waist for one dollar and ninety-eight cents, and had to figure sixteen and three-quarters per cent.
And then, when they came to count the contents of the bank, there were only twenty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents in it after nine months of faithful penny contributions.
It does not make any difference whether the waist costs one dollar and ninety-eight cents or twelve dollars and sixty-three cents.
I guess you couldn't let me have him for forty-eight cents," said the Wilbur twin hopelessly.
Then in deadly tones he declared to Solly Gumble, "I only got forty-eight cents left!
The druggist thrust out a bottle already wrapped in a printed cover, and the price, as became a cut-rate pharmacy, proved to be ninety-eight cents.
You been a right good customer, treating all your little friends so grand, so I tell you straight--you take that fine bird for forty-eight cents.
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