Cents Sentence Examples
It is paid for at the rate of from 45 to cents per cwt.
All water is metered and sells for 40 cents per thousand cub.
Now, to speak the truth, I had but ten cents in the world, and it surpassed my arithmetic to tell, if I was that man who had ten cents, or who had a farm, or ten dollars, or all together.
So, when the alarm shrilled its two cents' worth, Dean had cussed the sadist who invented it and figured it wasn't going to be a pleasant Wednesday.
In 1907 there was a serious clash between the state authorities and the Federal judiciary, arising from an act of the legislature of that year which fixed the maximum railway fare at 21 cents a mile and imposed enormous fines for .its violation.
So he saves fifty cents 'cause the night light isn't burning?
The same year a postal express to Leavenworth, Kansas (ro days, letters 25 cents an ounce) was established; and telegraph connexion with Boston and New York ($9 for ro words) in 1863.
Because of this, "two bits" is still slang for twenty-five cents in the United States.
The official value of the dollar was fixed at 44 cents gold for all government purposes.
They are able to produce widgets for ten cents, putting the Dollar Widget Company (with its unfortunate name) out of business.
AdvertisementI remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road.
A few of the cards are free, but most cost 99 cents to send.
The river rate has fallen below five cents per bushel, or 7s.
The cost ranged from So cents to per acre; or, with incorporated companies, from $1.50 to $2.50 per acre and upwards.
In 1907 a law went into effect making two cents a mile a maximum railway fare.
AdvertisementThe currency of Mauritius is rupees and cents of a rupee, the Indian rupee (=16d.) being the standard unit.
The monetary unit is the silver peso or dollar of too cents, which weighs 25 grammes, .900 fine.
A widower is entitled to a share in his wife's personal estate equal to the share of a child, and if there are 4 In 1907, in Missouri, as in various other states, passenger rates were reduced by law to 2 cents per mile; but this law was declared unconstitutional in 1909.
An amendment to the constitution adopted in 1908 permitted counties to make an extra levy of 25 cents on each too dollars valuation for the construction and repair of roads and bridges.
The whole lot contains eleven acres, mostly growing up to pines and hickories, and was sold the preceding season for eight dollars and eight cents an acre.
AdvertisementIt appears from the above estimate, that my food alone cost me in money about twenty-seven cents a week.
This can range from thirty to fifty cents.
Make sure to format it as dollars and cents; for example 25.00.
They were more or less about 75 cents a pack.
However, even the most popular songs never cost more than 98 cents.
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Each member of the legislature received $500 a year and io cents a mile for mileage.
Experience shows that it costs about 70 cents an acre to plough the land in this way.
It is estimated that it costs 35 cents a day to feed each labourer.
Including the labour and the wear and tear, it costs about 60 cents an acre to harvest wheat.
The taxes on land will average 25 cents an acre.
This makes the wheat cost 30 cents a bushel.
During the last five years the average farm-selling price of wheat in the North-West has been 58 cents.
Still to be provided for is the interest on the operating expenses for eighteen months, which will, at 8%, be 48 cents per acre.
The commission collects the small fee of 20 cents a car for its services as inspector, and later weighs all the wheat as it is distributed into the elevators.
The railways of the north-west have a monopoly of the business of hauling wheat, with the result that it costs 20 cents to ship a bushel of wheat from the Dakota field to Duluth, which is as much as it costs to forward it from Duluth to Liverpool.
The bushel of wheat, or an equivalent amount of flour, can be shipped from Minneapolis or Duluth to almost any point in western Europe for from 20 to 25 cents.
Natural gas abounds in the same region, and several strong wells were developed in 1906, and immediately afterwards gas began to be used largely for industrial purposes for which in 1908 the price was from 1 z to 15 cents per moo ft.
The first step towards repudiation was taken by the " carpet-bag " legislature of 1873, when it provided for the issue of consolidated bonds to replace the outstanding obligations at the rate of fifty cents on the dollar.
The total value of Connecticut tobacco in 1907 was $2,501,000 (1906, $4,4 1 5,9 22; 1905, $3,9 11, 933), and the average farm price was 11 5 cents per lb (in 1906, 18 cents; 1905, 17 cents).
The principal occurrences have been the final compounding of the old state debt at fifty cents on the dollar in 1882, the rapid growth of cities, and the increased importance' of mining and manufacturing.
I collected 24p and 10 Euro cents, and my friend got a lovely pink cardigan.
The cost is just 250 Iraqi dinars, or about 12 cents, a bargain in this neighborhood.
But a local glassmaker provided it for just 36 cents.
A liter of regular gasoline in Iran currently costs just 800 rials (9 cents; 5p ).
A dose of opium sells for 5,000 Iranian rials (60 US cents ).
Currency The Mauritian rupee (Rs) is divided into 100 cents.
Removed from the boosting quality levels civil unrest resulted cents per gallon.
The numerous laws limiting the fare for passengers to two cents per mile are an illustration of this tendency.
When the Civil War was over, the abnormally high price of cotton made cotton raising for more than a decade a great assistance to the people in recovering from ruin, but when the price had steadily declined from 23.98 cents a pound in 1870 to 10.38 cents a pound in 1879, they turned to the erection and operation of cotton mills.
She answered promptly, "I will pay ten cents."
As for a habitat, if I were not permitted still to squat, I might purchase one acre at the same price for which the land I cultivated was sold--namely, eight dollars and eight cents.
A liter of regular gasoline in Iran currently costs just 800 rials (9 cents; 5p).
A dose of opium sells for 5,000 Iranian rials (60 US cents).
Clip coupons-Whether you buy formula by the week or you buy in bulk, you can save anywhere from a few cents to several dollars per each container of formula when you clip coupons.
If you go beyond the allotted miles, you will be charged extra money for the overage, perhaps up to 25 cents or more per mile, which can add up quickly.
You can use airline miles for so much now that saying "one airline mile is worth two cents" is irrelevant.
Brokers often give you one to three cents per mile.
Calls are free domestically and only a few cents for worldwide use.
These cents add over time, resulting in significant savings.
For one to two cents a minute, a person can make a domestica call.
For just a few cents a minute, a call can be made to almost anywhere in the world, depending on the limitations of your phone card.
In addition to this cash back offer, individuals who qualify may also receive up to three cents per gallon savings at Walmart gas stations nationwide.
A savings of three cents per gallon at participating Walmart gas stations.
They commonly cost from 24 cents to 35 cents per transaction.
For a point of reference as to the cost for the electric company to generate power using coal, the traditional fossil fuel source is four cents per kilowatt hour.
It costs a few more cents on the average to generate power from gas or oil.
Wind power averages around 12 cents per kilowatt hour, while solar power may cost between 25 and 50 cents per kilowatt hours.
Her background as a Wilhemina Model, makeup artist for Lancome Cosmetics, and experiences on NBC emerged into a flourishing fashion beauty business known as Cents of Style.
I do Cents of Style workshops and wardrobe building strategies on a budget.
I am also writing a new book called Cents of Style to be released January 2008.
And then a second book to follow in the series called Cents of Beauty.
For example, if you're bidding on a book, and the starting bid is 99 cents, you can bid 99 cents.
Your bid will actually start at 99 cents until someone else places another bid.
People who are day traders may purchase a large quantity of shares in a company with the hopes that the price of the stock will go up by a few cents or more in a particular day.
Instead, day traders are more interested in small gains in price, possibly even a few cents, over the course of a minute, an hour, or a day.
Day traders who are considered scalpers tend to buy a huge number of shares of a stock and then sell those shares as soon as the value goes up a few cents.
While a traditional investor would usually hold on to the shares for an extended period of time until the value of the shares rose significantly, a day trader is happy with a profit of a few cents per share.
Currently, they pay 25 cents per image downloaded, but there are other ways in which photographers can earn money.
In addition, if you refer other submitters you can earn three cents for each file of theirs that gets downloaded.
Photographers can earn from 50 cents to three dollars per downloaded image, but this can increase up to 60 dollars per download if you get involved in their special licensing program.
Since eBay is an auction website, some sellers list their items for just a few cents, plus the cost of shipping.
They are inexpensive, often costing less than 25 cents per sticker.
You can expect this paper to cost between 25 cents and $1.50 per sheet, depending on the type of design and surface treatment.
To save money, consider buying seeds, this usually only costs a few cents.
Favors range in price from .99 cents to $4.00.
Any monies under two dollars are counted in coins, with increments between one cent and fifty cents.
For example, if you come across plastic ice cream sundae cups marked down to 25 cents at the end of summer, you can fill the cups with candy, wrap in tulle, and tie with a ribbon for a total of less than 50 cents per person.
While many others may want to put their two cents in regarding the selection, the decision should remain the groom's.
When purchased in bulk, lucky bamboo shoots can be as little as 10 or 15 cents each for a 3-4 inch tall straight stalk, though longer stalks or those with curls and twists can cost $10 or more each.
Depending on the size, style, and quantity of the order, magnets generally cost as little fifty cents or up to two or three dollars each.
In fact, she became a professional singer as a young child; Edna paid the girl 25 cents to sing at family functions.
You can also try sites like Refund Cents and Hip2Save to gather information on sales across the country.
Upromise partners with other companies, so you can earn a few cents towards your child's college education each time you buy selected grocery products or shop at specific stores.
I go to the used book store here in town and have bought a few books that were printed in 1889 for ten cents each.
The good news here is that the tunes will only set you back $.99 cents each.
You may also find extremely low prices, down to ninety-nine cents.
For the final decorative touch, you can save money by getting good deals on bows, ribbon, and shredded paper to include inside the basket at discount outlets, like the 99 Cents store.
Take them to the Main Street Penny Arcade (located in both California and Florida) where they can explore some vintage amusements and drop in a minimal amount of change (between 1 and 25 cents) per activity.
I have been waiting a long time for a game I can make a pun to in my little heading of "Thompson's Two Cents".
Simply edit this page and add your two cents above the other posts.
It costs a few cents (up to a dollar or so if you choose the extras), so keep that in mind when setting your price.
Sure you can get some older consoles on eBay and other classified sites, there just something about saying you were there to plunk down 10 cents on Spacewar!
Cards can range from a few cents in price to perhaps several hundred thousand dollars.
The $15 monthly prepaid plan includes unlimited texts and minutes are ten cents each.
Alternatively, the pay-as-you-go option offers rates as low as 10 cents a minute with refill cards ranging from $10 to $100 in value.
The additional minute rate decreases with larger plans, starting at 40 cents and ending at 25 cents.
Roaming outside of the U Prepaid wireless service area is 59 cents a minute.
Additional peak minutes are 15 cents each.
Also, additional peak minutes are charged at 20 cents each, but the base monthly charge is five dollars cheaper at $24.99 per month.
If you shop around, it is very possible to find a rate as low as 10 cents a minute!
The rate works out to 10 cents a minute anytime.
Alternatively, you can pay $1 per day on days that you use your phone and pay 10 cents a minute instead.
With Virgin Mobile, the basic rate is 20 cents a minute.
The $20 pack gives 200 minutes (10 cents per minute), the $30 pack gives 400 minutes (7.5 cents per minute), and the $50 pack gives 1000 minutes (5 cents per minute).
Every call is charged at a rate of 25 cents a minute.
These range for $29.99 a month for 200 anytime minutes and 15 cents for additional minutes to $69.99 a month for 650 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, unlimited mobile to mobile, and $0.108 per extra minute.
The CDC estimates that infant hepatitis B vaccination saves fifty cents in direct medical costs for every dollar spent on HBV.
Copying rates vary from 25 cents for paper-to-paper copies to 50 cents for microfilm-to-paper copies.Visitors should get approval from a staff person before copying original material.
All these are typically included in a good multivitamin/mineral capsule at a cost of mere cents a day.
In that scenario, spending a few cents per day to cover the nutritional gap is a good idea.
Don't throw dollars and cents down the drain buying package after package of yogurt from your store's dairy section.
Each cup of gourmet coffee will cost you less than fifty cents, far less than what you'll pay on discount day at the local fast food restaurant or gas station.
Pod coffee makers can be quite expensive to operate as a box of pods (which normally contains 18 pods) can cost around twelve dollars, or sixty-six cents per six-ounce cup.
On the other hand, a pound of premium ground coffee can provide 42 six-ounce cups at about twenty-four cents per cup.
Charity Navigator defines an inefficient fundraiser as one in which more than 50 cents is spent to earn a dollar.
Students can purchase a candy gram at school and send it to their friends for 25 cents.
Once you've completed your sign in, you can scan the forums, add your two cents, and meet other members for private chats or cams from the safety of your home.
It cannot be measured in dollars and cents, but only in the commitment the couple shares and the joy they celebrate as that glittering ring is slipped onto the bride-to-be's finger.
Favors typically cost from fifty cents to several dollars each depending on the size and type of trinket.
The Women's Review of Books has a rate of 14 cents per word and accepts book reviews from freelancers.
Rates generally start at six cents per word for novice writers and top out at 60 cents per word for more experienced arts writers.
Rates start at around 38 cents per word and top out at a dollar a word.
Feature articles start at a low rate -- approximately ten cents per word, depending on the publication and market.
The only way to catch these deals is to watch the circulars, visit the stores you know offer rebates on a regular basis, or join a deal watcher forum such as Refund Cents.
For an extra fifteen cents, you can have a chain attached, which is useful if you want to keep the purse with your keys.
For the most part, however, these little purses just make "cents."
They were extremely popular during the Great Depression because parents only had to pay five cents for a newspaper.
Granted, the movies are older releases and play at one certain time on one certain day, but a movie for 50 cents?
For every $100 you spend buying items in the store, you can receive 10 cents off per gallon of gas.
Wawa, a chain of convenience stores on the East Coast, gives a discount of one to five cents per gallon if you pay for your gas in cash.
An introductory offer extends a second set to you at just ten cents.
An average pack costs 85 cents at a convenience store.
Often, public libraries will have price tags of only 50 cents!
In 2009, the federal gas tax in the U.S. was at 18.4 cents per gallon.
Buying 15 bottles of body wash for your daughter at 25 cents each is a great idea - unless you happen to pick a brand with a fragrance that aggravates her allergies.
However, since song prices range from 64 cents to $1.24, you're not out much even if you decide to buy a few songs to go with your freebies.
A printable coupon for $1.00 off two Campbell's cooking soups nets you two free cans of soup when they are on sale for 50 cents each.
A coupon for $1.00 off any Johnson's baby care product gets you a free bar of Johnson's Buddies soap, regularly priced at 99 cents.
This means that a coupon ordinarily worth 50 cents is now worth $1 off your product.
Since ramen noodles can often be purchased for between 10 and 25 cents per pack, it's not surprising they are a staple in the diets of college students around the world.
Special to G Unit footwear, 50 cents of the proceeds from each shoe sold are donated to charities supported by 50 Cent.
Some of the shoes are only sold online at Walmart.com, but shipping is only 97 cents.
Currently, eight-seven American cents is equal to one Canadian dollar.
They are sold at newsstands throughout Europe and offer calls to the United States for about 10 cents per minute compared to the three dollars per minute rates that American long distance carriers charge.
Costco gas prices usually run between 10-to-20 cents less than the local market, sometimes more.
Standard mileage deduction for business operations of your car, van, pickup, or panel truck is 44.5 cents a mile for all business miles driven.
The Small Business Basic Plan has some restrictions and is limited to 1500 outgoing minutes a month with 3.9 cents for each additional minute.
Additional outgoing fax minutes billed at 3.9 cents per minute.
All prepaid carriers offer plans with numerous options, charging 10 to 60 cents a minute.
For example, buy 150 minutes and expect to pay about 30 cents a minute.
Auto pay options may not charge daily access fees, but you'll be charged for additional minutes used over your basic plan, at 45 cents or more per minute.
The 2012 rate for mileage driven for business purposes is 55.5 cents per mile.
Expect to pay anywhere from 99 cents for a single decal up to $9.99 for a set of three logo car decals.
Well, if 10,000 of them hit the market next month, and they're trading at 55 or 60 cents on the dollar, you're dead meat.
Otherwise, it drops in value to around 25 cents.
On the other hand, handmade lampwork beads can cost anywhere from 10 cents each for small, basic beads to $40 and up for ornate, bumpy beads that take a lot of time and technique to master.
Depending on the size and the amount of beads you order, you could pay between 20 cents and $1.50 or so a bead.
If you don't get a lot of magazines, old magazines can often be purchased at library thrift stores or other thrift stores for a few cents.
Geico offers a free calculator that will help you determine the amount of property that you own so that you will be able to estimate the dollars and cents you will save in an accident or disaster with renter's insurance coverage.
From there, the company moved on to insure working class people by going door to door to make the initial sale and then having a representative visit policyholders weekly to collect premiums, which cost between 5 and 10 cents per week.
Songs are 99 cents each, then they're yours to download, burn to CD or listen to from your digital music player.
Songs are inexpensive, only around 99 cents each, and you can download as much or as little as you like with no monthly fees.
Buy.com offers downloads for as little as 79 cents.
Napster sells individual songs for 99 cents, along with providing subscription options, but allows you to listen to any song five times for free.
Rhapsody focuses on providing streaming access to its library of songs, but it also allows users to download favorite songs for 89 cents each.
If you want to burn songs, you have to pay a specific price per track, usually in the neighborhood of 79 cents.
Individual tracks cost 99 cents, a standard price for music downloads.
Rhapsody offers individual music downloads for 99 cents.
Most individual songs are sold for 89 or 99 cents, depending on popularity, although there are also a few free music downloads.
Alternatively, you can download the entire album for 99 cents.
Their miscalculation is your gain - instead of paying 15 cents, 20 cents or more for a single track, you can get a 99 cent download of your favorite Keith Urban album.
Amazon.com - The Glee downloads on Amazon.com range in price from 99 cents to $1.29, so they are a little more expensive than some other sites.
Songs on sites such as iTunes.com usually cost somewhere between 99 cents to a little over a dollar, or, for a whole album, anywhere from $10 to $19.
Some discount items may only be a few cents' difference from regular prices, and if a large quantity is not needed in the first place, it may not be worth the discount.
Costs may range from less than 50 cents to more than $5 per hat depending on the design, the specific retailer, and the hat's materials.
If you find party hats for 25 cents each, but you must buy twice as many hats as you actually need, a smaller package is likely a better fit for your budget.
Listen to what your teen wants, add your two cents worth of advice, and then spend some time writing out all the details.
Even Pumpkin Green, the trekking philosopher, tossed in his two cents.
The land's as pretty as any place God ever created but that doesn't make it worth a lot of dollars and cents.
I'm down sixty cents.
Dean offered his two cents.
Contractors will often undertake to drill wells of moderate depth at 90 cents to $1 per foot, but the cost of a deep well may amount to as much as $7000.
In 1907 the average farm prices of tobacco was 45 cents per lb higher than that of any other state.
The silver 5-bolivar piece is usually known as a ” dollar," and is equivalent to 484 pence, or 962 cents U.S. gold.
A noteworthy peculiarity in the foreign mail service is that an extra charge of 2 cents for each letter and 1 cent for each post-card is collected when they are sent across the isthmus of Panama.
No charge is made for the transmission of newspapers within the republic. The letter rate is 5 cents silver for 15 grams, or 10 cents to foreign countries in the postal union.
Owing to the export tax on rubber (8 cents per kilogram on jebe and 5 cents on caucho) it is probable that the official statistics do not cover the total production, which was returned as 2539 metric tons in 1905, valued at £913,989.
The silver coinage consists of the sol (100 cents), half sol (50 cents), and pieces of 20 (peseta), so and 5 cents; and the copper coinage of 1 and 2 cents.
The light dues were reduced in 1898 from 22 cents to 1 cent per ton.
In default of payment of arrears of rent Cosby's Manor was sold at sheriff's sale in 1792 and was bid in by General Philip Schuyler, General John Bradstreet, John Morin Scott and others for X1387, or about 15 cents an acre.
On the 27th of October 1787 Cutler and Major Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820), who had joined him in the negotiations, signed two contracts; one was for the absolute purchase for the Ohio Company, at 663 cents an acre, of 1,500,000 acres of land lying along the north bank of the Ohio river, from a point near the site of the Democrat.
The quantity of alcohol present in an aqueous solution is determined by a comparison of its specific gravity with standard tables, or directly by the use of an alcoholometer, which is a hydrometer graduated so as to read per cents by weight (degrees according to Richter) or volume per cents (degrees according to Tralles).
For the sake of comparison it may be stated that the per capita cost of the English census of 1901 was 2.24 cents, or little more than one-tenth that of the American census.
The constitution of 1846 limited the pay of members of both houses to three dollars a day and to three hundred dollars for any one session (except in impeachment proceedings) besides an allowance for travelling expenses, but since an amendment of 1874 they have been paid $1500 a year and ten cents a mile for travelling expenses.
The Company promised to permit the patroons to engage in the fur trade, whenever it had no commissary of its own, subject to a tax of one guilder (40 cents) on each skin, and to engage in other trade along the coast from Newfoundland to Florida subject to a tax of 5% on goods shipped to Europe.
Shepard, meant to sell it for one cent, but under the arguments of Greeley he was persuaded to fix the price at two cents.
The system is maintained by a state tax of 16 cents on each $ioo of taxable property.
In 1909 the tobacco acreage in Kentucky was 420,000, the crop was 350,700,000 lb, valued at $37, 1 74, 200; the average price per pound had increased from 5'9 cents in 1899 to 10'6 cents in 1909.
So, although a price of 6'5 cents a pound covered expenses of the planter of Burley in the Blue Grass, who could use the same land for tobacco once in four years, this price did not repay the hill planter.
In 1906 and in 1907 the crop was very large; the pool sold its lower grades of the 1906 crop at 16 cents a pound to the American Tobacco Company and forced the independent buyers out of business; and the Burley Society decided in 1907 to grow no more tobacco until the 1906 and 1907 crops were sold, making the price high enough to pay for this period of idleness.
The court of a justice of the peace has jurisdiction in criminal cases only where the punishment is by fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both, and in civil cases only where the title to real estate is not involved and the damage demanded does not exceed thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents.
During1834-1846the royalty was 6 cents, and between 1846 and 1898 it remained stationary at one cent.
From its pages are culled the following facts relating to the changes in the rates of freight up to the year 1897.1 In Table 3 the average rates per ton per mile in cents are shown since 1846.
For the Fitchburg Railroad the rate for that year was 4.523 cents per ton per mile, since when a great and almost continuous fall has been taking place, until in 1897, I Valuable information will also be found in Bulletin No.
The railway which shows the greatest fall is the Chesapeake & Ohio, for the charge has fallen from over 7 cents in 1862 and 1863 to.
Putting the rates of the twelve returning railways together, we find the average freight in the two years 1859-1860 was 3 o06 cents per ton per mile, and that in 1896-1897 the average rate had fallen to 797 of a cent per ton per mile.
From 1858 to 1862 the rate varied between 42.37 and 34 80 cents per bushel for the whole trip of roundly 1000 m., the average rate in the quinquennium being 38.43.
Caird expressed the opinion that the cost of carriage from abroad would always protect the British grower, the average all-rail freight from Chicago to New York was 17.76 cents, while the summer rate (partly by water) was 13.17 cents.
According to the constitution of 1901 the legislature is required to levy, in addition to the poll tax, an annual tax for education at the rate of 30 to 65 cents on the hundred dollars' worth of property, and practically every county in the state had made in 1906 an appropriation for its schools of a one mill tax on $loo.
The sugar-cane crop declined in value after 1890, and each year more of it was made into syrup. In 1908 the tobacco crop was 2,705,625 lb, and the average farm price was 35 cents, being nearly as high as that of the Florida crop; Sumatra leaf for wrappers is grown successfully..
A law prohibiting drunkenness (1835) was followed in 1838 by a licence law and in 1839 by a law prohibiting the importation of spirits and taxing wines fifty cents a gallon; in 1840 another prohibitory law was enacted; but licence laws soon made the sale of liquor common.
A "non-support law," which went into effect in 1906, enacts that a man who refuses to provide for his family when able to do so shall be committed to the workhouse for hard labour, and that fifty cents a day shall be paid to his family.
The average annual cost of water per acre was then estimated at about 79 cents.
This treaty was never ratified, and four years later General Hilarion Daza, who had succeeded Dr Frias as president in 1876, demanded as the price of Bolivia's consent that a tax of 10 cents per quintal should be paid on all nitrates exported from the country, further declaring that, unless this levy was paid, nitrates in the hands of the exporters would be seized by the Bolivian government.
The finances of the country in the early summer of 1864 were in a critical condition; a few days before leaving office Secretary Chase had been compelled to withdraw from the market $32,000,000 of 6% bonds, on account of the lack of acceptable bids; gold had reached 285 and was fluctuating between 225 and 250, while the value of the paper dollar had sunk as low as 34 cents.
For the maintenance of the common schools each town is required (since 1905) to raise annually at least fifty-five cents per capita, exclusive of what may be received from other sources, and to this is added the proceeds of a state tax of one and a half mills on a dollar, onehalf the proceeds of the tax on savings banks, a 6% income from the permanent school fund (derived mainly from the sale of school lands), and state appropriations for the payment in part of the superintendence in towns that have united for that purpose.
In1906-1907the state school tax was increased from 11 6 cents per $100 to 13.6 cents per $100; an educational standard was provided, coming into effect in August 1908, for public school teachers, in addition to the previous requirement of a written test; a regular system of normal training was authorized; uniform courses were provided for the public high schools; and small township schools with twelve pupils or less were discontinued, and transportation supplied for pupils in such abandoned schools to central school houses.
In 1907 there were about 960,000 volumes in public township libraries for which a law of 1887 had made provision; since 1895 the formation of such libraries has been mandatory, and books, chosen by the county superintendent, are bought from a fund of io cents for every person of school age in towns, villages and cities of the fourth class.
The board has also power of visitation and inspection over the Wisconsin Veterans' Home at Waupaca, founded in 1887 by the state department of the Grand Army of the Republic. In the state's treatment of the insane, chronic cases are separated and sent to the county asylums. The labour of convicts in the state prison is leased; until 1878 the state itself supervised manufacturing in the prison; then for twenty-five years the convicts were employed in making shoes for a Chicago firm; and since 1903 the state has received 65 cents a day for the labour of each convict, and at least 300 convicts are employed in the manufacture of socks and stockings, from which in1906-1908(two years) the income to the state was $156,890.
With a view of effecting the reduction of street car fares to three cents, the state legislature in 1899 passed an act for purchasing or leasing the street railways of the city, but the Supreme Court pronounced this act unconstitutional on the ground that, as the constitution prohibited the state from engaging in a work of internal improvement, the state could not empower a municipality to do so.
The planters in the Black Patch had met a combination of the buyers by forming a pool, the Planters' Protective Association, into which 40,000 growers were forced by " night-riding " and other forms of coercion and persuasion, and had thus secured an advance to I I cents a pound from the "regie " buyers and had shown the efficacy of pooling methods in securing better prices for the tobacco crop. Following their example, the planters of the Burley formed the Burley Tobacco Society, a Burley pool, with headquarters at Winchester and associated with the American Society of Equity, which promoted in general the pooling of different crops throughout the country.
Farming is very intensive, and crop follows crop in swift succession; in 1905 the yield of barley per acre, 44 bushels, was greater than in any other state or territory, as was the farm price per bushel on the 1st of December, 81 cents; the average yield per acre of hay was the highest in the Union in 1903, 3.46 tons, the general average being 1 54 tons,was fourth in 1904, 2 71 tons (Utah 3.54, Idaho 3 07, Nevada 3.04), the general average being I 52 tons, and was highest in 1905, 3.75 tons, the general average for the country being 1 54 tons; and in the same three years the average value per acre of hay was greater in Arizona than in any other state of the Union, being $35.78 in 1 The San Francisco yellow pine forest, with an area of some 4700 sq.
This goal is within our grasp—and with the vaccine presently priced at about thirty cents a child, shame on us for not ending polio once and for all.
What we need to make its parts—iron ore to make steel, rubber to make tires, sand to make glass, petroleum to make plastics—is generally a few cents' worth of raw materials.
The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety cents.
The tracks here are 15 cents each, but the site is known for its safety.
In a market where the norm was a half cent to two cents per word, Galaxy paid five and six cents a word.
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The chief features of his administration were the fiscal preference of 333% in favour of goods imported into Canada from Great Britain, the despatch of Canadian contingents to South Africa during the Boer war, the contract with the Grand Trunk railway for the construction of a second transcontinental road from ocean to ocean, the assumption by Canada of the imperial fortresses at Halifax and Esquimault, the appointment of a federal railway commission with power to regulate freight charges, express rates and telephone rates, and the relations between competing companies, the reduction of the postal rate to Great Britain from 5 cents to 2 cents and of the domestic rate from 3 cents to 2 cents, a substantial contribution to the Pacific cable, a practical and courageous policy of settlement and development in the Western territories, the division of the North-West territories into the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the enactment of the legislation necessary to give them provincial status, and finally (1910), a tariff arrangement with the United States, which, if not all that Canada might claim in the way of reciprocity, showed how entirely the course of events had changed the balance of commercial interests in North America.
In November 1908 the lawlessness subsided in the Burley after the agreement of the American Tobacco Company to purchase the remainder of the 1906 crop at a " round " price of 202 cents and a part of the 1907 crop at an average price of 17 cents, thus making it profitable to raise a full crop in 1909.
In 1797 the state leased the lands, the lessees paying a royalty of 4 cents per bushel and being forbidden to charge more than 60 cents per bushel.
During1812-1834a royalty of 121 cents was charged to raise funds for building canals (a rebate being granted in the last three years covering the entire amount of the royalty for these years).