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WOMEN SELL EGGS
 TO CUT LIVING COST
      ————
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11.—One hundred
and fifty thousand dozen of eggs, at
24 cents a dozen, were sold to-day from
a score or more stations scattered
throughout the city, a record which will
probably be doubled to-morrow. This is
the result of the first endeavor of the
new Housekeepers' League of Philadelphia
in its campaign against the present
high cost of living.


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CROP PRODUCTION
  ON THE INCREASE
      ————
Special Government Report Gives
  Definite Information on the
      Greatest Corn Crop.
      ————
OTHER REPORTS LATER
      ————
Report Gives Potatoes an In-
    crease of Almost Double
        Over Last Year.
      ————
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8.—A corn
crop of 3,169,137,000 bu., or 281,921,000 bu.|
more than the greatest crop of corn ever
grown in any country of the world is
the feature of the country's most remarkable
agricultural year in history according
to the November crop report of
the United States department of agricul-*