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Show WOMEN TO INSTITUTE IRISH POTATO FAST MONROE, Wis.. Feb. 14. Women of this city who conferred on the high cost of living derided today that they will institute in-stitute an Irish potato fast unless the price of tubers declined by the end of this week. It is proposed to abstain from potatoes until the price recedes. The women declare that in blockaded Germany sixty pounds of potatoes can be bought, if r.ny are available, for 72 cents, while in Wisconsin, cue of the greatest potato raising states in the union, consumers con-sumers are paying four times that price. |