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Show Retail Sales in Utah Climb During August Sales of Independent retail stores In Utah were 3J per cent higher In August than during the same , month of 1938. according to a department de-partment of commerce report re- i leased Monday. In Salt Lake City an Increase of . .9 per cent In sales during August, Au-gust, 1939, over the preceding year was noted. August sales were up 10.2 per cent over July. Another note of business optimism opti-mism was the report of the Fed-' Fed-' eral Reserve bank of San Fran- Cisco, which noted "small but con-i con-i tinuous gains In retail trade" from I March through August |