[Rarebooks] FS: EPHEMERA: THE PHILADELPHIA CASH GROCER 1883 & 1884

[Ezra Tishman]

Ezra from Aardvark offers four lots, (each) of five, non-consecutive issues of THE PHILADELPHIA CASH GROCER 
Each issue 11 3/4” x 9 1/8”,  green stitch-bound paper covers, 22 pp.

THE PHILADELPHIA CASH GROCER: An Independent Weekly Journal, Devoted to the Best Interests of Retail Merchants.
                  In Which is Incorporated “The Quaker City Cash Grocer.”

“….which costs you less than THREE CENTS per week. It contains the latest and. most reliable quotations that can be had of Goceries, Dry Goods, Meats, Provision, Confectionery, &c., &c…."

“With no alliances it is the medium of no one Jobbing House, but advocates the best principles of the entire trade, its news
and advertising pages are open to the patronage of the whole trade…It is published Tuesday of each week at
Nos.  212 to 224 Carter Street. (Between 2d and 3d Streets, and below Chestnut) PHILADELPHIA by Geo. A. Frey, 
Sole Proprietor…

SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CTS.
Subscription $1.50 Per Annum In Advance.

The Phila. Cash Grocer has the largest bona fide circulation of any Grover’s Journal. 
published South of New York City. Bear Tthis is mind.


Each weekly issue filled with reports, advice on selling and market trends, future projections, cross-trade. news, current prices,

and opinions such as these:

“The reckless destruction of young oysters is being atoned for by those who find the supply diminishing.
The ‘cultivation,’ or planting of oysters will be a leading feature in this enterprise in the future.”

or

"The German-American Grocer, of New York, states that war has been declared by the grocers of that city against
one of the leading soap and starch houses, on account of the manufacturers selling their goods at retail. 
As the manufacturers are defiant, and the grocers in earnest, it rmains to be seen where the difficulty will end.”

Chock full of fabulous advertisements which paint both a broad
and specific picture of daily American commercial life nearly a century and a half ago.

In one issue, we find:

Advertisements for paper pails (“More Durable and Sightly than Wood. Price $4 per dozen”); Tea Caddies; London Beetle Powder; 
Sugar Coated Pop-Corn --Try a 25-lb Case; Hires’ Root Beer Packages 25¢ Makes Five Gallons of
a Delicious Temperance Drink”; Dry Hop Yeast; Cheese Safes; Maxwell’s Prepared Gypsum; Patent Alarm Money Drawer;Blackwell’s Durham Tobacco; 
Groves’ Prepared Raising Buckwheat; Automatic Potato Scale; "Excelsior The New Illuminating Meteoric Balloon - Inflating and Firework Attachments" etc. etc. 



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																PRICE: $60 per 5-issue lot, NET to All, Postage Paid.
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