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Show FAMILY EXPENSE STILL INCREASING By Universal Service. WASHINGTON, Nov. . 24. A statement showing average family expenditure for food during the past year has just been Issued by the la'cor department. The figures, which arc based on price quotations 'received monthly by the department de-partment from more than 2001 retail stores throughout the country, and which are taken from twenty-two of the most essential articles, show that the average familv expenditure from September, 1017, to September. If IS, Increased 1G per cent. During the past year, says the labor department, the average cost of food rn New York was 5 per cent above that for the United States, while the cost in Chicago Chi-cago was " per cent below the acrage l of "the United States. |