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HTML

<div class="outer tile"> 
    < ... various other html here > 
    <div class="cost">
        <span class="text">Purchase price </span>
        <small>$</small>5.25
    </div>
</div>
<div class = "results"></div>

CSS

.results {
    color : red;
    margin-top : 50px;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function(){
    var a = $('.cost').first().contents().filter(function() {
    return this.nodeType == 3;
    });
    $('.results').text(a.text());
});