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Show I: MOST ENCOURAGING .BUSINESS OUTLOOK. I Lead higher, copper higher, wool I higher, and Secretary Davis reporting J unemployment disappearing in the ' east. At last the country Is bidding fare-j fare-j well to hard times. ; Bradstreefs joins in the cheerful inote of optimism. That conservative ; medium, dealing with business condi-I condi-I '. tions, says: ; Improvement is the key-word of the reports received this week regarding trade, Industry and crops. Retail buy 'Jng and jobbing distribution are both better, wfih most progress, as for some time past, Bhown in the western I 3 surplus grain producing areas. Better H J weather and rather more active em- I ployment is reflected in the eastern I 'states generally, while the south, ow- 1 1 I jing largely to excessive rains in parts 1 f of Texas and in the southeast, show H I Jlea" notable progress, although the re I III a cent rise in cotton, the activity In and strength of lumber, and the subsl dence of the flood waters in some sections sec-tions helps the growth of the more op timistic feeling recently observed in i that section." Now that, the mending process is well along, the country can expect a recovery In all lines of Industry. With the gathering of crops this fall, the slump of the past two years should be a thing of the past. , rr |