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Show BOYCOTT CAUSES FURTHER DECLINE IN PRICE OF EGGS SEATTLE. Dec. n. As a result of the bovcott Willed here by women, eggs ex-r'r-iPi".-ed a furfur de-dine of ctrras a dozen today. They are offered by job- bers at 4 cents. Dealers report that the demand is much less than when the wholesale price was cents and that the tendencv is decidedly downward. At the public mass meeting of women here todav to encourage a continuation of the warfare aaainst high prices of foodstuffs, an "esffless. butterless and potatoless" luncheon was served. Speakers Speak-ers urged that hominy, macaroni and rice be' substituted for potatoes. II. F. Moore, deputy commissioner of the United Stales bureau of fisheries, arrived here todav to nesin a publicity campaign in all Pacific coast cities to educate the people to the more liberal use of dneilsii, rechristened gray fish by the "Overnm-nt. and black cod. He declared de-clared that within a few years the con-sumntion con-sumntion of black cod should rrn.cn f)d ttott fion rounds annunllv. The substi-itution'of substi-itution'of tis'n for a great deal of the meat now consume 1. be contended, would materially ma-terially reduce the hih cost of living. Supoena Grocerymen. r'MTCAO. Dec. 11. The federal grand iurv which' is investigating the recent "rl'-e in food prices today ordered retail TOcers and market men subpoenaed to Tell how they arrive at the price the ultimate ul-timate consumer lias to pay. The iurvmen have been struck by ihe wide variance between the prices wholesalers whole-salers have testified they charge retail-it retail-it w;is aivnnunced. and wish to let the retailers account for the difference in the two prices. |