half cent

Experience demonstrates that anything more than this one-half cent per pound charged on cotton, entails more loss than gain.

Yet a half cent will scarcely pay freight for more than one hundred miles.

Or forty postmarks for a half-cent of any date earlier than 1857.

Business for that day was placed at 555,000 bags, closing prices being about one-half cent lower.

I hear that in Montreal it was found necessary to use cent stamps to prepay the half cent rate.