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Show LIVING PRICES I AT OMAHA HAVE BEENINCREASED I CHICAGO. Dec. 16. Figures bearing lit It I on the cost of living at Omaha, Neb., lulll and Sioux City, la., figured today in ilrQI tho arbitration before Judge Alschuler I ll wherein packing house employes at im- IliJI portant centers seek higher wages ilrll Jacob H. Davis presented statistics ju on the cost of living In Omaha. Among increases since December 17, 1917, he yj 111 gave tho following: Hull Milk lg per cent; canned milk 32; lJ butter 41; ham -12; meat in general 22; M coffee 18; rice 28. and rolled oats 14 Ml per cent. Irlll R. J. Hajer, a beef skinner for Cud- If! j ahy at Sioux City who received $2600 M a year, testified he kept a careful rec- til ord during the last year and that this F(J shows that actual necessities cost his , m family of four $1757 in that period. Ml |