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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, January 02, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 9

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CINCINNATI HOUSEWIVES BUY IN CARLOAD
LOTS AND FAIRLY BUTCHER THEIR BILLS
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. Mrs. Joseph- Ellms, Helping Unload a Car of Potatoes.
"It is just as easy to buy potatoes
by the car-load as it is by the peck,
and when you. get them in car-load
lots the price of a peck isn't much
more than what the grocery man
charges you for .a small measure of
them," said Mrs. Joseph Ellms, pres
ident of the Cincinnati housewives'
co-operative League. She leads about
700 other women in reducing the high
cost of living in that many families.
This little band of women pur-

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