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Show MAYOR'S COMMITTEE TO SELL POTATOES NEW YORK. Marrh 10. Potatoes have been added to the foods purchased in huge quantities and sold at retail at the lowest possible price by the mayor's food committee. Word came from Boston Bos-ton today that the committee had purchased pur-chased through a broker thero 90,000 bushels of Maine potatoes at a price said to be more than $225,000. An increase of 1 cent a pound, from 6 to 7 cents, in the price of rice brought a statement from George W. Perkins, chairman of the committee, today to thfl effect that any rise in the price of rice 'must bo the direct result of collusion and tbo fpderal government should art." |