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Show 20 PER CENT ADVANCE IN PRICE OF GLASS Wholesalers and Retailers All Over the United States Will Be Affected. PITTSBURG, Jan. 7. The American Association of plint and Lime Glofs .Manufacturers, at their quaru-vly rreet-ing rreet-ing here today, advanced prices on all larkages "-'i' per cent, making the barrel the bas' with a minimum price of b'U cents. Marion (j. Bryce of Pittsburg head of the largest 'glass company in the 'ountiv. said that soda and other materials mate-rials used in the pnducticn of glass iwid advanced to unheard-of prices, while -:iii per cent would about represent the idvanre in potash whc:i any .:ould re bouL-ht. Labor, too. is mop1 eo.-rlv in uo't of the giass-iuamifayturiug states. Tiie new prices affect factories :hroughoiit the east and middle western states, while wholesalers and retvi'e.s n every community in the country will in- affected. |