Evening star., 1919-12-21
FOOD PRICES HERE
ROSE IN NOVEMBER
II OF | PER CENT
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Reports Only 2 of so
Cities Had Decrease.

Family expenditure for food in
Washin gton increased but hve-tenths
or one per cont in November, accord
ing to reports received last night by
the bureau of labor statistics from
its agents working in this city.
Out of fifty cities inves igated by
the agents of the bureau only two
showed a decrease in the cost Of food.
naming forty-eight Newark. Peoria
and Washington showed an increase
OF ffve-tenths of one per cent.
Baltimore, Buffalo. Cleveland. Co
lumbus, Milwaukee, Omaha, Philadel,,
Springfield, Mass increased one per
cent each. The greatest increase in
the cost Of food was noted in Mobile
Ala. where food increased per cent
during the month Dallas increased
per cent; Birmingham. Portland
(Me.). Houston, Memphis and New
York increased per cent each. Will
Rochester. San Francisco, Los Anee-
les. Atlanta. Charleston. Little Rock.
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Butte
increased 3 per cent each. An in
crease of per cent was noted in Bos-
ton, Bridgeport. Chicago. Denver. De-
troit, Fall River. Jacksonville. Kan
sas City. Manchester. Minneapolis.
New Haven. Norfolk. PITTSBURGH.
Paul, Salt Lake City and Scranton.
Changes in Year.
The city Of Minneapolis showed the
greatest increase during the year
period from November, 1918, to No
vember. 1919, with q rise of II per
cent. Three cities decreased as COM
pared with a year ago. as follows:
Baltimore. per cent: Newark. l per
cent, and New Haven, less than five
tenths of 1 per cent.
As compared with the average ex-
penditure for 1913. the cities increased
from 70 per cent in Los Angeles. to
104 per cent In Birmingham. The in
crease in Washington in November,
1919. over 1913 was 100 per cent
Richmond, Detroit and Charleston in
creased 101 per cent each and Men,
phis. 102 per cent. Boston increased
SO per cent; Philadelphia 80 per cent; /;
New York. 96 per cent; Baltimore and
st. Louis. 80 per cent: Chica go. 81 per
cent; New Orleans, 80 per cent, and
San Francisco, n per cent.
Reports received by the bureau from
retail dealers in fifty cities show that
the retail cost of twenty-five staple
food articles increased 2 per cent in
November as compared with October
The foods on which this comparison
is based are ba con. ham, lard. sirloin
steak, round steak. rib roast, chuck
roast, plate beef, pork chops. hens,
nour, corn meal, eggs, butter, milk.
bread. potatoes, sugar, cheese, rice,
coffee and tea
Percentages OF Increase
Articles which increased during the
month of November were: Eggs. ~
per cent: onions and sugar. 10 per cen
each; rafsins. per cent: butter 6 per
cent; storage eggs and prures per
cent; canned salmon, fresh milk and
potatoes, per cent each; rice and
bananas, per cent each: evaporated
milk. oleomargarine. cheese, lard
crisco, bread, -four and macaroni. /
per cent each; tea and coffee, less than
hve-tenths of per cent. Nut mar
garlne, cornmeal, rolled oats, corn
makes, cream of wheat. cabbage
canned peas and tomatoes remained
the same price as in October
The following articles decrea sed in
price: Pork chops per cent: ham 4
per cent; bacon, 8 per cent: round
steak. plate beef. hens, navy beans ems
oranges, 2 per cent each; sirloin steak.
rib roast, chuck roast, lamb. ba;
beans and canned corn. 1 per cent
each.
The average family expenditure
for = the twenty-five articles in
creased per cent during the year
from November. 1918. to November
1919. For the six-year period, No
vember, 1913. to November. 1919, The
increase in the cost of the twenty
two articles of food combined was 81
per cent. Articles which increased
more than 100 per cent were: Rec.
1O2 per cent; bread, 10i per cent; po-
tatoes. los per cent: cornmeal 113
per cent; flour. 124 per cent; lard,
129 per cent, and sugar, 131 per cent