1889 Worcester MA Boston Branch Grocery Market Report Newspaper Broadside RARE For Sale

Dimensions: 9\" x 14\"
Up for sale is an incredibly rare, authentic late-Victorian commercial advertising broadside masquerading as a special issue newspaper: the \"Worcester Opposition Newspaper: To-Day\'s Market Report,\" dated Saturday, June 29, 1889.
This fascinating historical document was issued as a comprehensive inventory and price guide for the \"Boston Branch Meats and Groceries,\" located at 221 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Designed to be pinned to a kitchen wall or kept in a pantry, the broadside urges 1889 housewives to compare these low cash prices against traveling butchers and competitive grocers.
The sheet features a spectacular, detailed window into 19th-century daily life, providing a complete price directory for Victorian household provisions. It covers everything from exotic Teas and Coffee to Canned Meats, Pickles, Crosse & Blackwell\'s English Jams, Flour, Whole Spices, Soaps, Brooms, Lamp Chimneys, Wicks, Pork, Beef, Vegetables, and Seeds. Printed with a wonderful array of vintage letterpress display fonts and period-specific marketing slogans (such as \"Those who eat to live, Those who live to eat!\"), this single-sheet broadside is an exceptional artifact of Massachusetts commercial history, industrial-era retail economics, and graphic design history. It comes safely housed against a white protective foam core backing.
Specifications:- Publication Title: Worcester Opposition Newspaper / To-Day\'s Market Report- Advertiser: Boston Branch Meats and Groceries (221 Main St., Worcester, Mass.)- Exact Date: Saturday, June 29, 1889- Format: Single-sheet advertising broadside / retail price list- Material: Vintage newsprint- Size: 9 inches by 14 inches- Subject: Late 19th-Century Americana, Grocery Trade, Advertising Ephemera, Worcester MA History
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