| A pyramid of stacked canned goods at an Alabama store. Original caption reads: "The people of Alabama are artistically inclined as evidenced by the car loads of fancy labeled canned goods packed in other states and shipped to them for retail at high prices. In this sidewalk pyramid which was photographed in front of J.E. Hasson & Company store, Aliceville, Feb. 15, 1915, were cans of tomatoes from Newport, Tenn., which retail at fifteen cents per can and some from Baltimore which peddle at ten cents per can. Sour kraut from Scottsburg, Indiana, brings fifteen cents per can and small cans at that. Sugar corn from Gibson City, Illinois, and from Portland, Maine, retail alike for ten cents per can, while soaked peas from Baltimore are the same price. Peaches from Winters, California, bring fifteen cents per can, but pie peaches from Baltimore could be obtained from this exhibit at ten cents per can. Lye hominy from Jeffersonville, Indiana, were being bought in large quantities by Aliceville residents at fifteen cents per can, and it was worth the price for each can has a highly colored lithograph of George Rogers Clark set in scroll, as shown on top can. Pet cream from Highland, Ill., also was a fine seller at this store and sold for ten cents a can straight. Evidently all dogs around Aliceville must have died if conditions were similar to one farm visited by some of the speakers who found canned milk on the table. Considerable surprise was expressed by the visitors to which the hostess replied, 'We haven't had any fresh milk since the dog died.' Pressed for an explanation she said that the dog used to bring up the cow morning and night to be milked, but since the dog died, the cow had not come up and no one at the house wanted to run their legs off trying to drive her up, so they were buying canned milk." |
