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Show COST OF LIVING IN WMIIM Dollar Constantly Shrinking in Capital Condition Not Due Entirely to War. WASHINGTON, March 6. The high cost of living in the national capital has not been due entirely to the war as statistics compiled by tho department of labor today show that tho food purchasing pur-chasing power of a dollar has been shrinking for ten years in Washington. A dollar will only buy as much flour as fifty cents- would ten years ago. A dollar's worth of corn meal could have been bought for 34 cents and a dollar now Is only worth 40 cents in the purchase pur-chase of eggs. The amount of Birloln steak which a dollar will buy has decreased from 5.2 pounds to 2.7 pounds; pork chops from . G.3 pounds to 2.3 pounds, bacon sliced, from 5.3 pounds to 2.0 pounds; ham ; sliced from 4.4 pounds to 2.1 pounds; . lard from 7.3 pounds to 3.0 pounds; hens from 5.6 pounds to 2,9 pounds; butter 2.7 pounds to 1.76 pounds; milk , per quarts 12l5 quarts to 7.1 quarts; s potatoes from 4.3 pecks to 1.9 pecks; sugar from 18.2 pounds to 10,4 pounds. ! oo To make two cigars each working day for American soldiers in -France Is tho task which 2500 members of Boston Cigarmakers' union No. 97 has set for themselves, in order that, the ?10,000 soldiers' cigar and tobacco fund, being raised by tho union, may go as far as possible. |