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A.voirdupois Weight
16 drams (dr.) make 1 ounce (oz.) 25 pounds make 1 quarter (qr.) 16 ounces make 1 pound (lb.) 4 quarters make 1 hundred weight (cwt). 2000 weight makes 1 ton (T).
“The best is none too good.” Southern family receipts gathered across generations and printed in Atlanta in 1883 — and, in the same volume, everything else a household was expected to know: the laundry, the sick-room, dressmaking, babies, and a year's bill of fare.
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16 drams (dr.) make 1 ounce (oz.) 25 pounds make 1 quarter (qr.) 16 ounces make 1 pound (lb.) 4 quarters make 1 hundred weight (cwt). 2000 weight makes 1 ton (T).