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Show FOOD PRICES GO UP. We find in tho Springfield (Mass.) Republican tho following conciso illustration il-lustration of tho upward bound of prices: Here Is a practical study In "sociology": Ten yenrs ago a Chicago department stoic advertised for 1.05 this Thanksgiving dinner: "Nino-pound turkey, enough plum pudding pud-ding for four, mincemeat enough for three pies, bunch of celery, turkey seasoning, season-ing, pound of parsley, quart, of cranber-rleu. cranber-rleu. pound of mixed nuts, three pounds of sweet potatoes." This voar the same bill of fnro cost $4.25. Tho country has been going some In scaling the precipitous slopes of the price lists. That is an increase of I0S per cent, or an a vera go rate of increase of 10 per cent 'a ,3'oar. The nine-pound tur-ke3' tur-ke3' alone, would cost this j'car a good deal moro than the wholo $1.95 feast for four of ten 3'cnrs ago. For, tho 30 cents a pound asked for lurk 03' in this cit3', is even less than what is asked in othor cities. But it is a fino condensed illustration of tho boom in food prices, which makes it so hard for tho laboring man on .monger sulur3'( to live as American citizens and families ought to livo in a frco republic. |