Housewives Concerned.
THE COST OF LIVING. BIC INCREASE IN AMERICA. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received . 8.0 a.m.) Washington, November 23. Official figures show that the retail prices of twelve out of fifteen of xlio principal articles of food in America increased (50 per cent, during the past fourteen vears. The increase was
partly due to natural causes and partly to artificial stimulation. In order to meet the latter, housewives are advocating the establishment of public markets and co-opera-tive stores.
Living in America is one-third higher than in Britain.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 24 November 1913, Page 5
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