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Show MEAT PRICES HIGHER THAN EVER IN NEW YORK New York, Feb. S. Meat prices arc higher than oxer in this clt today. Dropping for a lime, while tho agitation agi-tation for elimination of meat from the diet was fresh, quotations, both wholesale and retail, .have mounted 10 figures equal to, and In some cases above, those prevailing before the movement began. Indications are, prominent dealers say today, that still higher prices are coming. Retailers attribute this increase to tho cold weather. Shore supplies are believed by the wholesalers whole-salers to have more to do wllh It than anything else. They believe ihe agitation agi-tation has "blown up." |