This just in, from the Watertown Republican. (Watertown, Wis.) June 27, 1877.
I’d pay a nickel to see that chicken.
And this breaking news from The Morning Call, San Francisco, April 1, 1894.
$2,500 in 1894 → $68,854.40 in 2017
(according to this inflation calculator )
And finally, this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 8, 1889, tells of an indoor football game between the Riverton team and the University of Pennsylvania. See the entire article here.