Despite the high prices of imported commodities with which to regale the inner man during the festive season, shoppers there were in abundance visiting the grocers and the provisie stores, A etirsory visit to the shop led one to believe that the depression me high cost of living were things of the past and that better days) had dawned for Shanghai fil, A. Chinese establishment on Nanking oad aid a thriving business selling live turkeys {o Into. shoppers, although the prices. of the bir ranged from $13 to $47 each, price asked (or what has become rare delicacy was more than $2 per pound, while pheasants fetched $10 oF thereabouts for a brace, Many economical housewives ventured to the Hongkew Market where, it was said, the prices for turkeys, pheasants and' livestock were less than those obtainable in the Settlement and French Concession
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