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Show SAYS "PROFITEERING" CHARGES ARE UNTRUE LA WRENCH. Mass., Dec. 26. The ljiwrer.ee Chamber of Commerce, in a letter sent today tn William M. Wood, president of the American Woo i en company, com-pany, says it has found "nothing to warrant'1 war-rant'1 i.is recent charges that some of ' the merchants in this city were charging : excessive prices for necessaries. Mr. Wood had threatened to open a 1 large stre here, at which his employees' c'-u!d buy at cos', unless Lawrence merchants mer-chants reduced their prices. In the letter, in explaining the chair:-Ver's chair:-Ver's reasons for not submitting comparative compara-tive price I1 sis. requested ry Mr. Wood in conference with tho merchants on December De-cember IT. it stvs that "so many irr-Jgu-iar;U-"-s and differences in pr.ees in Lawrence Law-rence and othr cities have heen encountered encoun-tered tiiar the Lst should be submb ted |