From 1908 Sears & Roebuck Catalog

Jim Taylor
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 12:42 (1806 days ago)

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While prices look cheap today, think about how long you had to work then for $1.00!

actually I wasn't around then, in fact may parents weren't

Gary Reeder
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 13:07 (1806 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

around then.
And it looks like the folks that typed up the ads weren't gun people. In the Colt Special pearl handle revolver ad they said the right handle had an ox head engraved on it. I don't know if I ever saw one with an ox head on it.

MY DAD TOLD ME

BUCKWHEAT
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 13:53 (1806 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

HIS FIRST JOB AT SELLY GRAYS GROCERY IN BARTLESVILLE - WORKED OUT BACK PLUCKING CHICKENS & SUCH 12 HOURS A DAY WITH AN OLD BLACK MAN -- ONE SILVER DOLLAR 1929

I remember many times my grandfather would

Darryl T.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 14:20 (1806 days ago) @ BUCKWHEAT

Say "when I was your age I worked for a dollar a day".

You’ve seen them. Probably would

Df
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 16:55 (1805 days ago) @ Gary Reeder

Have called them a steer head. Elmer’s guns?

I guess what I was mumbling about is I have

gary reeder
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 20:46 (1805 days ago) @ Df

never heard of the steer head grips called ox head grips. Sounds almost moronic.

Keep in mind $20.0 in 1908 is about $625.00 today

Jt
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 15:15 (1806 days ago) @ Jim Taylor

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