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Show CITY IAH CLEAHIKS SIH BIG IICIEASE Total for Month of May 40 Per Cent Over Last Year's Figures. Total bank clearings for the month of May wero $26,526,527.37, as compared com-pared with a total of $18,S26,S27.54 for the corresponding month of a year ago, Tho increase, tlioroforc, is $7,690,654.So, or an excess of little more than 40 per cent over tho showing for tho corresponding cor-responding month of 190S. The total for tho week ending May 29 was $G,293,-I14.09, as compared with a total of $4,045,633.02 for the corresponding cor-responding week of a j-ear ago. Tho excess is thus $2,246,7S1.67, or considerably consid-erably more than 5o per cent. The total for Saturday, May 29, was $906,-810.32. $906,-810.32. As tho corresponding (ny of a year ago was a holiday, no comparison can be mado. The above figures indicato that tho daily totals of bank clearings for the month have been well up to tho high standard set at the beginning of the year. Tho average total for the twenty-six twenty-six working days was $1,020,366.43. |