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Show RENT AND FUEL BILLS GOING UP Cost of Li vine i in Nine Cities Shows General Decline at Year's End : WASHINGTON. Jan In - Expend! tures of the average family for rent, fuel nnd light, not only resisted, buj ran counter the last six months of 1020 to the general tendency toward a lower prlee level, it way shown Sun day m figures compiled by the department depart-ment Of labor's bureau of labor Statla-tics Statla-tics The figures made public cover ex penditures by average families in Dal limore. Cleveland. Chicago. Detroit, New V6rk. Philadelphia, San Francis co, Oakland and Seattle The average cost of living in these cities Jan 1. was 99.2 per cent over 1914. while at the end of June-' it was 116.1 per cent. Using the D'14 costs as a base, the percentage- of Increased i cost of the following items In June and December, were- Food, June 110.9. December 75.6; lothlng. June 191.8, December 159.5; houalng, June 416. December 49.5. fuel and light, June 57.6. December 7!i n furniture and furnishings. June ' 191 8. December 181 9 The percentage increase in the cost of living in roast cities over 1914, were given as follows for June and Decern-; Decern-; ber, respective!) San Francisco and Oakland; 96 nnd ! 85.1. and Seattle 110.5 and 94.1, ' |