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Show NATIONAL MARKETS BUSIER THAN USUAL NEW YORK. Jan. 7. Bradstreet's I says: Post-holiday quiet features trade and industry as a whole, but the Influence of counter-currents In retail trade and in some of the big industries relieves the sS'.uatlon of some of the usual' early-ln-the-year inactivity Thus, I while results of inventories or preparations prepara-tions for sending salesmen on the road occupy Wholesalers, there is some life seen In cotton .qoods at large primary markets. Wool Is active and advancing, advanc-ing, though the goods rnarku: is quiet, and raw silk Is strontr. with December consumption IS per cent off from November No-vember but over UmibTsTfiasI year s In retail trade after-holiday sales, coupled coupl-ed with colder weather In some areas, helps distribution, heavy wearing apparel, ap-parel, shoes and rubbers being prominent promi-nent In he latter. In the south quiet l. more marked than at the north, and in Texas high temperatures and I drought, which latter hurts the grain I crops, limits buying. Weekly bank I clearings, $6, 716, 150. 000. |