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1860s newsprint

May 7, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser

            At Brownsville, Texas, molasses is selling at fifty cents per gallon.  Shoes, of good make, eighteen dollars per dozen.  Hats, at the same prices.  Domestics, twenty cents per yard.  Two hundred barrels of flour sold at auction at ten dollars and fifty cents per barrel.

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