Strawberries were sold in Vienna in May at 1000 crowns apiece. The exchange value to-day of this sum is about (id., and its- purchasing power in Vienna is a little more, but not much. Austrians, however, still think or’ 1000 crowns in terms of years a<o and raise their eyebrows at the idea of strawberries costing “forty guineas apiece.” ,
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 284, 26 August 1922, Page 17
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