File:Cartoon warning World's Fair attendees of price-gouging.jpg

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English: to warn people attending the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition of the probability that St. Louis residents will gouge them, a cartoonist depicts people renting "hotel rooms" that are literally shelves.The bottom shelf is $1 (in 1904 money), the top shelf is $3, and the adjacent wall hooks are $0.50.
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Source http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-05-02/ed-1/seq-3/ (The Tacoma Times)
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