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Show COSf fiF LIVING IN AMERICA WAS 1MEVEF! SB HIGH AS AT THIS TIE WASHINGTON. D. C. Juno IC. , Tho cot of living U higher than ovor boforo in tho United Btatos us far ns government stattatlas how and Is increasing ah year. In 19M. tho year' cost of filling tho market basket of the average, work-ingumn's work-ingumn's family, was 10 08 higher than It wa In 1912 Jtnd JC0.43, higher tluu In 107. ealcnlatlng on relatlv price figures mnnouuoad to-day to-day by the fslral buronu or labor and statistics, m a result f lti most rent Investigation of retail Tho retail price of food for the I joare 1907 to 19H pldorlnB UI food combined reached Uio highest high-est point in 1914. white tho loweal prlciVwas in 1907. tho bureau of I lubor statistics announced today fol-, lowing an inquiry In forty-four Jm-1 portant Industrial cities of tbo conn-try. conn-try. ThU, however. I not true of each artfdo. Flour, for naUnce.! than In 1H. Buwr. wb oh roach-1 , wmarkably high point, HC.J per cent. In AUguM, 1914, was 7.9 por cent lower for the oar 19X1 ffianC'or oar fit lower ior itbo 'ar 1914 than tor. KJrlSlO and 1918. All neat woro higher In 1914 than In any of tho prvcodliiK years. The figures show thut tho highest high-est Klnt during 1U14 was roaohod In Sptainber, wJieu tho I'rlco of all fod was 7.1 Kir cent hlsher thnn tho avoMge prleo for 1913, and tho lowest Mlnt wtis reached tn April, whou tho prlco was 3.C por cent lower than tho nvorago prlco for 1913 Kxcopt for lard and such ur-tlalCA ur-tlalCA as aro nffeotod by seasonal changes, tho hlghwit prlco during ho year whs either In August or Hept4Ubr. Tho price of nil food combined was but 3 per oeut higher for tho year 1914 than 1913. |
