| Show MARKED UPWARD OF THE COST OF LIVING federal bureau of labors report of investigation of price prices shows everything at top nothing on decline washington tho most marked up ward aard trend of the cost of 0 living la Is disclosed in eabe federal bureau of 0 labors cnora of 0 an investigation of price or the last ten years conducted in ahe important industrial centers of thirty awo states fifteen important arli articles ciles of food as nell ell as coal comaris comprising ing two thirds ol 01 a work Ingmans needs were Ini investigated estl gat e d in many a tho investigators gathered statements teniente sta ot of cw raer chants on the cost ot of living and specimens ot of these are published in the I 1 report on jur jlii b 15 1912 he report show shows tUr fourteen teen of the fifteen articles ot of food were ere higher than a year before and ten had ad advanced lanced in the last ten yeara yearl more than datty per cent over the aver age o 0 price for too preceding ten years pears duran during the last decade prices ol 01 poa kaow a changed most and sugar the least their advances were 1119 and 8 5 per cent respectively during tho the last year bacon which decreased just one tenth of ono per ent cent was as the only one of the fifteen articles of food that showed a decline while nine of the fifteen advanced more than ban two per cent varying from 2 4 per cent for milk to IS 18 6 for round steak of the fifteen only eggs butter milk and sugar were lower lover but the price of three of these four Is normally lower ovier in summer than in winter |
