Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-18 | Page 5 | Retail Food Costs Increase 2 per Cent

tail R Food Costs Increase 2 Per Cent WASHINGTON Oct 18 An An InI in- in I ase of ot over 2 per cent in the re- re cost o of food between August nd d September 16 i was reported floday odny by the statistics bureau of ot U of ot labor the weight weight- number advancing from jj 44 2 to 1468 Increases in the average family for or food ranging up to M er cent were recorded for tor the in Jn nine forty of one fifty liles embraced In Jn the survey Slight I were registered at Butte I f font nt and Denver Advances ln 1 as al hh as 16 per cent on I g were listed for tor twenty-five twenty t I tides Iea or of food while declines were V ho fo for or ton ten including 11 per cent I n a onions Only eight articles ler re- re r ne haged