Bits O' History: "Four Eyes"-- Avocados, Anyone?--Chicago Food Prices 1914

BITS O' HISTORY--  Tidbits, you know.

1.  'FOUR EYES"--  You can calls him Ted, or youse can call him Fed.  Just don't call him "Four Eyes."  Before he was president, Theodore Roosevelt got into a bar fight after being called "four eyes."  Must have charged up the guy's forehead.

2.  AVOCADOS, ANYONE--  On their way to the New World, European sailors used avocados in place of butter.  Avocado it up.  Well, I just learned how to spell avocado.  I always thought it was avacado.  Never too old to learn something I suppose.

3.  CHICAGO FOOD PRICES IN 1914:

MILK:  9 cents a quart
EGGS:  35 cents a dozen
BACON:  28 cents per pound
POTATOES:  18 cents per pound
SIRLOIN STEAK:  26 cents per pound

Just a Touch.  --Cooter