"Jack's teacher gave every pupil candy. Marie didn't come to school this morning. Joyce is learning to cut paper with her shears. I have been saving my pennys. I have 26¢ now. Jack has 15¢ ($1.15) now."
I used this Inflation Calculator to figure out that 26 cents is about $4.89 today. Fifteen cents in 1936 is about $2.82 today, and $1.15 is $21.64 in today's money. I am wondering if Jack had a dollar bill in addition to 15 pennies.
Doing a little digging on the internet told me I could get a 2.5 oz. Snickers barfor five cents, and a loaf of bread for nine cents in the 1930s.
Doing a little digging on the internet told me I could get a 2.5 oz. Snickers barfor five cents, and a loaf of bread for nine cents in the 1930s.
It would have probably been a silver dollar
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