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S01:E11
A St. Louis theological journal printed a New York church's budget in May 1856: $22,505 a year, $432.78 a Sunday, with the bellows-treader's wage on the same list as the pastor's four thousand. Add the column and it comes to $8,505. What the missing fourteen thousand dollars tells us about how the journal clipped.
Read the essay: news.collver.biz/the-most-expensive-pew-in-new-york
The two pages are in the CHI Digital Archive, German and English side by side: chi-archive.collver.biz/page/2384