...Louis. The prices of corn and oats are farm prices. YEAR. Food. Clothes and clothing. Fuel and light. Metals and Implements. Lumber and building materials. Drugs and chemicals. Housefurnishing goods. Miscellaneous. All articles. 1860 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 100 0 110 0 100 0 100 0 1873 115.2...

...consumers are at their mercy. Here we have a cause DIAGRAM II 1890-1908 Average Prices Farm Produce Food Cloths and Clothing Fuel and Lighting Metals and Implements Lumber and Bld'g Mat'ls, Drugs and Chemicals House Furnishings 100=Average of 1890-1898 1890 Is91 1892 75 1899...

...including pocket-knives. Food lower 1840 to 1850; clothing higher 1B40 to 18ÔJ. Prices 1891 and 1840: Food. Cloths and clothing Fuel and lighting Metals...materials . Drugs and chemicals House-furnishing goods Miscellaneous articles Numerical summarv Changes in prices Increased prices confined to lumber and...

...COMMODITIES FOR EACH MONTH, 1902 TO 1907, BY GROUPS. [Average price (or 1890-1899=100.0.] Farm products. Cloths and clothing. Fuel and lighting. Metals and...Lumber and building materials. Drugs and chemicals. IIOU8O Miscella neous. All Date. Food etc. furnishing goods. commodi ties. 19O2. January 126.7 111.4...

...iron, lead, tin, etc. The long list of the Aldrich report contains 8 groups of commodities: food,19 cloths and clothing, fuel and lighting, metals and...lumber and building materials, drugs and chemicals, house furnishing goods, and miscellaneous articles. A number of items are considered under each group....

...wholesale prices which it is proposed to use in connection with these items are grouped as follows : food, cloths and clothing, fuel and lighting, metals and implements, lumber and building material, drugsand chemicals, house-furnishing goods. is necessary, therefore, to consider the proportionate...

...commodities, in this market, appears to have been 9 to 10 per cent higher than the preceding year. An official compilation of wholesale prices of articles...average was 98.7, in 1849; the highest, 116.8, in 1840; the average for the period, 105.9. For 1850 to 1859, inclusive, lowest, 100.2, in 1859; highest,...

...purpose of comparing these index numbers for related articles, eight groups were formed, as follows: Food, cloths and clothing, fuel and lighting, metals...lumber and building materials, drugs and chemicals, house furnishing goods, and miscellaneous. In securing the average of the index numbers for each group...

...quotations shown in such publications for each month. Frequency of quotation. Farm products. Food, etc. Cloths and clothing. Fuel and lighting. Metals and implements. Lumber and buildIng materials. Drugs ana chemicals. Rouse furnishing goods. Miscella neous. Total. Weekly IS 22 1 1 1 88 Monthly 8 82 62...

...shown in such publications for each month. Frequency of quotation. Farm products. Food, etc. ClothH and clothIng. Fuel and lighting. Metals and implements. Lumber and building materials. Drags ana chemicals. House furnishing goods. Miscella neous. Total. Weekly . . . 13 22 1 1 f I 88 Monthly...