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Show POST 1F HIP IJF POFFFF Price Has Doubled and Sugar is Going Higher Chicago, Sept. 20. With the further increaso in tho price of sugar yes-.terday, yes-.terday, it dawned on Chicago that a cup of coffee costs twice as much as it did a short time ago. The Brazilian berry now costs 15 cents a pound as against 7 cents -i short time ago. Sugar prices are also doubled, the price to consumers beins S cents a pound. The increaseJ cost of coffee is due to the action of the Brazilian government govern-ment In placing an arbitrary value unon its principal product instead of Ihe economic . alue haved on the cost of production and the demand A shortage in the sugar beet crop of Gormany and the cane crop of the southern part of the United States combined with a heavy demand for sugar for canning purposes, is responsible respon-sible for the great increase in -the, cost of that article. COFFEE THREE CENTS New York, Sept. 20. Recent advances ad-vances 5n the price of sugar, coffee and milk have led the Bowery eating houses to order an advance In the prico-of coffee from 1 cent a cup to 3 cents. Coffee is tho favorite nonalcoholic non-alcoholic drink on the East Side, and the Increaso will effect thousands of the lodging house and tenement population. popu-lation. oo |