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Show IMORTH RUSSIA i AWAITS OPENING OF NAVIGATION f ARCHANGEL, May 29 -(Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The population of North Russia is looking look-ing forward to the opening of navigation naviga-tion to relieve a general shortage in the simplest necessities and small luxuries lux-uries of life from which it has suffered suf-fered since the beginning of the bolshevik bol-shevik revolution. An American housewife, accustomed to buying the little things she needs i IflthOUt trouble, could hardly picture; the condition of her sister in Arch ftngel. One wants, for Instance, to sew a new dress. Perhaps one may obtain the material, at a fabulous price, or I fairly reasonably if bought, strictly ra- j tioned. by card. Search lor linincs will prove even more difficult and then one probably would find It absolutely lm- possible to buy a packet of needle, or a spool of thread The same would apply to a man who had broken his wntch crystal, or eyeglasses and wished to buy new ones In the matter of foodstuffs, the basic elements of diet, bread and meat and dried vegetables, can be purchased falrl reasonably but, at this writing, H pound of butter QPStS the equivalent of $2 eggs 60 to 85 cents each, and, 1 the other day, when some liny orances were brought ashore from a ship, they sold at the rate of $1.50 each, and were bought up eagerly. oo |