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Show Bifp! ' HIGHEST PRICES FOR HIEr MEATS IN FORTY YEARS Bw' Chicago, Aug. C Wholesalo and BWlSr retail prices that have not been HnS I - touched slnco tho civil war weio nsk- K . el fr meats in Chicago today. At BV4 1 tll 'nrd tP heef sold for $10.10 a Bb ,, ) hundredweight. iB'l I i BEL In Bl"" )"ir'B ot tl10 cll' retailers BBIl , x were aaklug as high ns 40 cents n BS'li I V ' UIul f0r ll' ,)08t cut8 of l10rt0r' BB'I ' lnuB0 ,lteak nn'l wholesa'crs and ro- BnLij , j.,,,6rB i 'd In saying thnt the top Bl, L-BBBBk I )rlco of all meati has notyetbeen reached. Ntt In forty years has such a condition con-dition existed in this great boot center cen-ter of the world. Every dealer np'-preached np'-preached today was firm In tho conviction con-viction thnt prices would steadily soar ipunrd, nnd this, too, at a season of tho year when prices nro generally tower. Tho scarcity of cattle was generally general-ly ascribed ns the causo of the r'stng prices. |