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Show CITY CARTAGE TO BE INVESTIGATED Washington, Dec. 12. The country's manufacturing industries in 1914 turned turn-ed out products valued at more than twenty-four billion dollars and employ" ed eight million persons. In giving out these figures today tho census bu reau announced that investigations Planned for tho coming voar will cover cov-er transportation by water, religious oodles and marriage and divorce. A special lnqulrq to be undertaken soon will cover tho cost of city cartage car-tage as a factor in tho cost of living. Charges for cartago of goods a single mile from the railway station to the homo or place of buslnoss, according to tho report, sometimes aro greater than charges for transporting goods a hundred miles by rail. |