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Show TRADEREVIEW NEW YORK, Dec L Bradstrect'e will say tomorrow: Weather and holiday Influences have dominated distributive trade this week. Cold weather throughout a wide area helped seasonable trado In winter wear goods at retail and also measurably helped demands upon Jobbers for immedlato shipment Still, a few markets note an Increased number of orders received for spring and recent advances of cotton goods prices are expected to ovoke more business in this line. There Is noticeably no-ticeably more cheerful tone In reports from some western centers hitherto reporting quiet trado. Holiday prospects pros-pects are classed as fair to Kood. Among the Industries there Is cvl-dont cvl-dont a rather fuller volumno of production than for some time. Prominent Prom-inent In this lino are iron and steel. Fairly good reports come from tho woolen goods and kindred trades. Business failures In the United States ending Nov. 30 wore 213, against 293 last week and 217 in the like week of 1910. Business failures in Canada for the wcok number 2G, which compares with 3-J last week and 32 In tho corresponding cor-responding week of last year. DUNN'S REVIEW. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. R. G. Dunn & Co.'h weekly review of trade will say tomorrow: Not only has the recent Increased activity In the leading Industries and trades been maintained, but there 1b a dlstlnco Improvement In buslnoss confidence both east and wchL Thcro are signs of some disposition to anticipate the future Instead of confining pnrchases to Immedlnte necessities. Taking everything into consideration November 1ms been tho best month of tho year. The copper market continues, strong. Jobbers still buy Hue goods cautiously, cau-tiously, but morcunuts generally look for Increased purchasins In the next two weeks. In woolens nnd worsteds duplicating on spring goods continues contin-ues and sovoral large mills aro assured as-sured of stendy work through tho winter win-ter months, . oo |