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COST OF IT TNG IN- MOBILE & NEW ORLEA' COMPARED AS TO
WEEKLY RESTAURANT BOARD SlU- vs f>10
CUP OF COFFEE ? 25/ vs 15/
DRINK OF WHISKY ? 25/ vs 15/
PRICE OF A SHAVE -- 25/ vs 15/
SHOE SHINE -- 25^ vs 10/
HAVANA CIGAR ? 25/ vs	10/
STREET RAILWAY RIDE ?	10/ vs 5/
OYSTERS ? doz Rav 50/	vs *+0/
Cooked 75/	vs 50-60/
March -	1866
N.O. Times - Thursday, March 15, 1866 - p 5 c 1 from "Mobile Advertiser"
The "Mobile	Advertiser"	gives	the following as a few	among the
many reasons	why	people	do	not	stop in Mobile:
In Npw Orleans board may be obtained at a first-class restaurant for &10 a week. For this sum l4 tickets for meals are furnished. If the holder of the tickets should be absent, or dine out, he loses nothing.
In Mobile the charge for board at	a	first-class	restaurant	is
Sl^ or Sl5 a week.	For this two meals	a	day are allowed as In	New
Orleans, but as tickets are not furnished, the absence of the boarder is so much additional gain to the restaurant. He pays his money, whether he eats or not.
In Npv Orleans a cun of coffee or chocolate at Richelieu's or Boudro's, in an inner room, with all the means and appliances of comfort, may be had for 15 cents. In Mobile the charge for the same article at Augustini's or Festorazzi's is 25 cents, and it must be taken in public, before the street door, unless you are accompanied by a lady.
In New Orleans the charge at a bar-room is 15 cents a "drink."
Here it is (in most of them) 25 cents.
For shaving, you pay 15 cents in New Crleans--25 cents in Mobile.
A boot-black's	fee is 10 cents in	New Orleans,	In Mobile	it is
the inevitable "two	bits" -- 25 cents.
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