Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Cosmopolitan April 1935 Page 130

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Talk so far for so little 
ESPECIALLY AFTER 8:00 P.M.
ABOUT 75 MILES FOR 35 cents
ABOUT 150 MILES FOR 50 cents
ABOUT 150 MILES FOR 50 cents
ABOUT 275 MILES FOR 75 cents
Go visiting tonight...by telephone 
* 3-minutes, station-to-station rates
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The average price of a new home then was $3450 about 2.16 times the yearly average wage of $1600. Which was about 2.56 times the price of a new car $625. Today?

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