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Show iCHRISTMAS BUYING IS Oil I EJUS! i 'jj Merchants Predict Greatest Ii-'l Volume of Holida' Trade lj in City's History. : HOPE TO AVOID RUSH '.; ISvci-y Inducement Held;,Out I; to Shoppers to Make Piir-'! Piir-'! . chases Eaity. 'hilc Christmas trade lias been ro-; ro-; 'nnrKably uood the last week, iiulica-: iiulica-: i?ons again point to :t Jinal mad rush i; the Moras during the last two daj-s i or ko buforc the holiday, according to ?Orn I miipnlinnlu II At the snnic time, this year's lioliday j buying bas been much different than ,r hat of last year. Honuy of tho mcr- i; thani iy (hat a comparison of this 'f pci';oJ in both years, up to th0 prca- !'. nt date.' would hmv a rom.-irk-nhln Jn. IjJ iCdic. in rei-oipts a ml also a rrniarka- ( 'o increase in the varieties and lines , that have told o heavily. This, thov .Hi snv, indicate that the increased, slock 'K f.irried by most of the stores will be i. profitably sold, with no cumborsonjo or mpoaaonahlr war to carrv later as . u urhi and a Jos?. Expect Record-Breaker. - 1 "rlhonnore. thov predict, that tho 'i'i jI rush will coinc with a great ' ' Tvhoop, " mid will prove a rocord-' rocord-' b-eakir in Iho volume of trade and tho ; . mount of receipts. Almost all of tho iMMThaiitK a'reo that there is plenty ( "l ( hristmns monov in the city more ban ju years and thai shoppers spend , i l-enjy, BOt standing on price, but rather I Milliter to pay any amount asked ir ! f will scenic for them what thov H"n.y. rbu far this year, large sales have ren made in Christ mad goods and nov-i t !?.o. ,if high duality and high price, n Ith tho usual heavy trade in smaller " l fins of more modest cost. In both sji1s 1ine been steadily in-i in-i raising, and the "early shopping" 1 nou incut snouts to have brought bet-i bet-i ': results this year than formerly. Time Grows Short. However, there arc only eight shopping shop-ping days left between now and Christ--niae, and all the retail merchants have omb;ned in iheir ctl'orts to porsundo ! ) Clirhlntus shoppers to profit, bv "e great and nbvious advantages o'f hoppiug as earlv in the week and as earl in tho day as possible. i ne majority, it is declared, proba-tlv proba-tlv will "let the other follow SJ shop 'irl, but wi!I llnd out tlmir mistake. final rush is bound to come, but it ia hoped that the unpleasant features of that "finalo" can bo avoided this year by bringing out tho crowdo ourly in tho week. Nevertheless, Monday Mon-day and Tuesday before Christmas probably will bo the heaviest Christmas Christ-mas shopping days in the history of tho city, AIL lines of business held up remarkably re-markably woll during tho Inst week, and all " merchants nro beginning to wear their holiday smiles. Naturally, cash sales wcro greatly nbovo normal, with collections running to a high percentage. |