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Show Chicago Consumer Made Glad by Drop In Prices of Food Potatoes Lead With $1.50 Reduction Per Bushel; Canned Goods Off. By United Press. CHICAGO. June it. Mr. and , Mrs., Consumer were ociebratlng today the first real opportunity they had been afforded In months. Practically every foodstuff on the market had taken a sudden fend . decided tumble In prices. Potatoes were down to f 2.15 a bushel, wholesale, whole-sale, for a new drop of I1.S0 In a week. Freeh vegetables were down proportionately. Canned foods were off 11 to i per cent. Charles Paeseh, director of the Chicago Master Bakers' association, associa-tion, predicted an addition of six ounoee to the IP-cent loaf of bread as a result of lower flour prices. A sudden drop In prices of so many artloles had several explanations ex-planations orersupply and Impending Im-pending passage of the food control con-trol bill being the ones most generally gen-erally accepted. Coal dealers reported cancellation cancella-tion of orders from large consumer consum-er awing to the administration fl-claring fl-claring a reduction in fuel prlcea |