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Show Cost of Living in One Year Increases 23 Per Cent According to the bureau of labor statistics of the Department of Labor, La-bor, in the year from November 15, 1916, to November 15, 1917, prices of food as a whole advanced 23 per cent. Potatoes is the only article that shows a decline in price. Corn meal advanced 87 per cent; bacon, 6 2 per cent; pork chops, 4 8 per cent; beans, 39 per cent; salmon, 38 per cent; milk, 33 per cent, and lard 27 per cent. Food as a whole was 48 per cent higher on November 15, 1917, than on November 15, 1913, and 46 per cent higher than on November 15, 1914. During this four-year period corn meal advanced 127 per cent; flour 109 per cent; lard, 104 per cent; bacon, 77 per cent; sugar, 75 per cent; and potatoes,, 72 per cent. No article declined in price. |