Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — PRESENT LIVING COST BREAKS ALL RECORDS. [ARTICLE]

PRESENT LIVING COST BREAKS ALL RECORDS.

New York, Dec. 9.-—The cost of living, as based on 96 staple commodities, advanced 1.3 per cent during the last month and now stands, at 131 per cent above the pre-war level,' or the highest ever known, according- to figures made public today by Bradstreet’s. Textiles, provisions and- groceries constitute the bulk of the commodities. There were increases from November 1 to December 1, last, in fortysix of the commodities. Building materials reached new high price levels on December 1. Price advances in England have been much greater than those in the United States, however, for at the close of November they were 2.8 per cent above those for the end of October, 12.4 per cent above those of a year ago and 172 per cent above August 1, 1914;

$50,000 worth of the very latest in. the jewelry line on display at Jessen’s jewelry store in Rensselaer, Ind., on December 13th. See advertisement in this paper.