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Show BRADSTREET REPORT NOTES IMPROVEMENT NEW YORK. May 27. Bradstrect's Improvement 1? tho key word of ths pH reports received this week by Brad.-street's Brad.-street's regarding trade, industry and crops. This improvement is by no IH means uniform, being affected by and ndent upon varying conditions of Wi lth r. the progress of planting and Of crop development, and the slow B but' apparently steady Kaln In activity In most, not all. industries toward pH better conditions Final distributive trade, that is. retail buying and Job- bine distribution, are both hotter with most progress, us for some time JH past, shown In the western surplus grain producing areas. Better woa- ther and rather more active employ- ment is reflected In the eastorn states generally, while the south, owing largely to excessive rains In parts of H Texas and In tho southeast, shows less notable progress, although the recent rise in cotton, the activity in and strength of lumber, and the sub-sldence sub-sldence of the flood waters in some sections helps the growth of the more optimistic feeling recently observed in that section Weekly bank clearing oo |