Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change."
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