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Show PRICES OF FOOD DROP 1 PER CENT ! IN THIS DISTRICT WASHINGTON. Nov. 18. A decrease de-crease of three per cent In retail food prices In October throughout the I'nited States wan noted In statltles on the cost of 22 articles of food. ! made public today by the department of labor. Greatest decreases were- In prices of sugar. 2 4 per cent, and potatooJ 15 per cent. The price of eggs In-ci In-ci . aaed 1 4 per cent The aVerage family expenditure for the 22 articles of food decreased In all of the 11 cities, from whic h month-l month-l prices w.r, tabulated, except Houston, Hous-ton, Tex., where there was an Increase of approxlmatel five-tenths of one per cent. The greatest decrease, six prr cent, was in Omaha and St Paul, in Minneapolis. Min-neapolis. Portland. Ore., and Seattle, the decrease was five p i , , nt, In Chicago. Chi-cago. Denver. Portland. Maine, and San Francisco, four per cent; Atlanta. Kansas City, Los Angeles and Washington, Wash-ington, 6 percent; Itutte, Dallas, Salt Ii ke City and New York, one per cent. |