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The main objective of this article is to present a case study referring to the temporal located in the Mercurio de España, dated June 1824. This section of the newspaper, which did not reappear again, constitutes a climatic and economic indicator from which it is possible to identify the types of cereals sold in Spanish cities and provinces and to know how the prices of wheat, barley, corn, and rye fluctuated as a consequence of climatic oscillations. It was a usual relationship among contemporaries, which was manifested in the publication of short-lived papers and newspapers that have gone unnoticed by historians. For this work, data was extracted and analyzed to know which cities and provinces had the cheapest and most expensive products. The interest of these results-we believe-does not lie so much in their climatic character -but also-in the capacity to approach the economic reality of cereals that constituted the food base of the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]