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Show DEPARTMENT STORE MAKES CUT IN PRICES NEW YORK, May 3. Ono of New York's largest department stores inserted in-serted advertisements In today's newspapers news-papers announcing that it would attempt at-tempt "to break tho backbone of high prices" by offering its stock valued at ?20,000!000 at a reduction of twenty per cenL The only goods excluded will bo about $50,000 worth of merchandise mer-chandise purchased under prico restrictions re-strictions which cannot be "honorably changed." The only motive in raakiug this general gen-eral reduction, said tho advertisement is "a conscientious senso of duty" made necessary by the reports of gov-ernmont gov-ernmont Investigators that prices are still on the upward trend. HH 00 |