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Show ADVANCE CONTINUES IN COST OF LIVING XEW YORK, Dec. 9 The cost of tiv-j, tiv-j, ing as based on ninety staple commodittes j advanced 1.3 per cent during the last month and now stands at 131 per cent I above the pre-war level or the highest ever known, according to figures made public today by Bradstreet's. Textiles, provisions and groceries constitute con-stitute the bull? of the commodities. The baste of the computation is the total wholesale price of a pound of each of the articles included. This total was $20.17656 011 December 1, which was wight-tenths of one per cent above the previous high level of August 3. last. It is an advance ofi 6.1 per cent over De-j De-j cember 1, 19 IS, three weeks after the armistice was signed: fourteen per cent over December 1, 1917, and 131 per cent over August 3. 1914. There were increases from November 1 to December 1. last, in forty-six of the commodities. Building materials reached 'new high- price levels December I. Price advances- in Kngland have been much greater than those in the "United States, however, for at th-e close of November No-vember they were 2.S per cent above those for the end of-October, Vl. per cent above those of a year ago, and 172 per cent above August 1, 1914. |