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Show !j Food Prices Are Reported as Declining WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Food prices are on tlie decline, the department of labor's bureau of labor la-bor statistics announced tonight in a statement asserting that the retail re-tail price of 22 staple foodstuffs showed a decline of two per cent at the end of September as compared com-pared with the last of August. The decrease, based on statistics from all parts of the country, is the first to be recorded since the world war began, with the exception of a decline in June, when food was five-tenths of one per cent cheaper than in May. The price of the 22 staple foodstuffs, however, is still 88 per cent above the average price for the same foods in 1913. Onions and potatoes showed the greatest price decline, of 17 and 11 per cent respectively. Cabbage, meats, cheese, flour and sugar also i were lower. Raisins went up eight per cent during the month and were followed in their climb to greater or less degree by rice, eggs, salmon, butter, beans, canned vegetables, coffee and corn meal. |