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Show GREAT INCREASE. IN VOLUME Of TRADE CHICAGO. Nov. 1. Wholesale trade and manufacturing Industries In volume of business have Increased 30 per cent for the year ended yesterday. SI over the record rec-ord of the preceding twelve months and 100 per cent over ten years ago. The figures fig-ures were obtained from the publicity department de-partment of the. Chicago Commercial association. as-sociation. In many lines the percentage Is even higher than that recorded in the foregoing tables, notably in clothing and In boots and shoes, but 20 per cent has been taken as a conservative basis. Including In-cluding all branches of trade. The increase in business in the last year Is regarded as the more remarkable in view of the long teamsters' strike during dur-ing the summer. It is considered that this reduced the Increase by at least t per cent. |