{"id":2348,"date":"2023-04-21T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/2348"},"modified":"2020-01-24T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T14:39:21","slug":"corn-and-bacon-for-soldiers-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/corn-and-bacon-for-soldiers-families\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">April 21, 1863, <em>Weekly Columbus Enquirer<\/em> (Georgia)<\/p>\n<p>I have 400 bushels of corn that I will sell to poor soldiers&#8217; families of Spalding county for one dollar per bushel; also, 2,000 lbs. of meat, at 40c per pound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">R. H. Tooley.<br \/>\nGriffin, Ga., March 28, 1863.<\/p>\n<p>The above notice was posted by Mr. Tooley, a man of moderate means, who keeps a candy store in Griffin.\u00a0 He purchased these articles before the seizures, and now, with a generous liberality, while corn is selling in Griffin at $2.50 per bushel, and bacon at 80 to 90c per lb., he is giving relief to soldiers&#8217; families at the prices named in his notice.\u00a0 There are many whose means would better enable them to assist the poor, but who are slow to follow his example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21, 1863, Weekly Columbus Enquirer (Georgia) I have 400 bushels of corn that I will sell to poor soldiers&#8217; families of Spalding county for one dollar per bushel; also, 2,000 lbs. of meat, at 40c per pound. R. H. Tooley. Griffin, Ga., March 28, 1863. The above notice was posted by Mr. Tooley, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}