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Show COST OF COFFEE i HAS ALMOST DOUBLED CHICAGO, aept. 30. With the further Increase In the price of sugar yesterday, -. r. It dawned oa Chicago thai a cup ot cot-fe cot-fe roata twice aa much aa It did a short time axo. The Brasilia n berry now coats tS rents a pound, aa acalnet T rents a ahort time auger prlcea are also doubled, the price tu consumers being t cents a pound. The Increased cost of coffee la doe to the action of the Brail I lan government In placing an arbitrary value upon Its principal product Instead of the eonomh-value eonomh-value baerrf on the cost of productiou ami the demande A elmrtage In the sugar beet crop of Germany and the cane crp of the southern south-ern prt of the United Siatea. combined with a heavy demand for sugar for can-nmr can-nmr purpoeea, la responsible fir the great Increase In the mat of that article. |