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Show :Morns Company Net ! Earnings $703,641.95 j CHICAGO. Jan 1C Tho net earnings earn-ings of Morris and company, packers, .for the year ending November 1. 1919. 'was $703,611.95, nccording to tho company's com-pany's financial report to stockholders jmndo public last night. This represented repre-sented a return of 1.25 per cent on a capital investment of 556.025,684, or I less than one-eighth of a cent on every dollar of sales, including by-products, ', the statement said. The compnny's volume of sales showed an increase over the previous year. It was stated, but profits de creased 53,500.000, duo. It was asserted to agitation against the packera, nnd to a decrease in the price of products. The total income during 1919 was 56.S45.171 and expenditures of 56,141,-'829. 56,141,-'829. Assets on November 1 wore placed at 5114,001,575. oo |