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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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If I’m reading the date right, this would have been 6 years after Ford introduced the $5/day wage, so a million dollars back then would have been over 600 years of workman’s wages. At 5% interest, a million dollars would have yielded an income of $136 per day indefinitely.
Which is to say, it’s quite nice to have a million dollars now, but back then it would have made you fabulously wealthy. The Wikipedia says Briggs himself died leaving a $90,000 estate.Report
I didn’t know that about Briggs estate. The fight over it is the stuff of family legend.Report
I was confused by this until I looked up the post where you introduced him as your great-grandfather. Were your grandparents on the winning side, or the losing side?Report
I saw three robins about a week ago. Two days later, we got an inch and a half of snow! Now it’s 60 degrees.Report
Well, it’s a harbinger with imperfect reliability.Report
Colorado?Report