Chief Askew's Diary: March 1, 1930

There was a large crowd in town; was anybody smoking? Probably.

“March came in pretty brisk,” Chief Askew wrote on this first day of the month that traditionally comes in like a lion. He observed there was a “large crowd in town in afternoon,” but he stayed at home, complaining of “rheumatism in my right knee.”

Thursday’s post raised some questions about the prices of grocery store goods then and now, particularly for cigarettes. Paid subscribers can read on about why a carton of cigarettes today costs three times more, in constant dollars, than it did in 1930.

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