100 years ago: Price of dozen eggs increases to 35 cents

From the Lawrence Daily World for Nov. 3, 1909: “Eggs were selling here yesterday for as high as 33 and 35 cents a dozen and pumpkins were going for between 5 and 15 cents each. This is one of the highest levels for eggs in some time. …There have been two scarlet fever deaths in Baldwin and the situation there is dangerous. Four houses have been quarantined.”