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Show q o v Q v ; v Busmss AT I RECORD POINT I Trade Exceeds Any Year Except Possibly Reckless Reck-less Year of 1919 OGDEN IS BUSY CITY Postoffice Receipts and Bank Clearings Reflect Better Times By II LRDEN col. I ; (Copyright. n'.'2, by Tho Standard-Examiner. Standard-Examiner. ) j WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. Santa Claus went over the top in the retail trad.-, with i pari; variously estimated at from t,000,000,OOQ to ?4.000.rt00 ilp value. The Christmas trade throughout the nation, according to early reports available h-re. apparently apparent-ly ha3 excelled in volume that of any pr.-ecdiug year with the possible exception excep-tion of J019. Fntll more complete i figures are ,n. the record year as to lvalue is In doubt. There Is no doubt. I however, about the volume of goods j purchased, according to the postoffice department and other agencies. It is i greater this year than -ver before. AUTOS FOR GIFTS. According to th automotive Industries, Indus-tries, the Christmas glVOr has said It this year with automobiles Tin- demand de-mand for cars In December has never (approached that of this year. One New York distributor states that he 'has sold more thr.n fifty cars this year I for Christmas presents; another had sold 73 for that purpose up to last Thursday night. Jewelers' stocks have swept down to the lowest point they have reached for years, according to ddyjees to some of the leading wholesalers whole-salers of Maiden Lane. Last year the I ,1 .r.,,, ,1 mam llrrht- V,;Q it not be satisfied In full. i L TR1 b nn I SE. All the trucks that tho war department depart-ment has to spare throughout the country have been borrowed by tho postal service to aid In the collection and delivery of Chris'mas mall. Receipts Re-ceipts at the chief postofflces have increased in-creased greatly during the month, largely the result of the holiday trade. The postmasters gauge business conditions condi-tions by th number of stamps they ) sell. New York sold 27S.OO0 more during the first 15 days of tho month than , during the same period last year; Boston. Bos-ton. $108,000, and Chicago about ' per cent. The increase in parcel post movement move-ment at Philadelphia was 2 per cent; SL Paul. SO per cent; Denver, 12 per Icent; Chicago. 32 per cent. Indian-'apolls, Indian-'apolls, 33 per cent; Milwaukee, 20 per cent. Memphis, Co per cent and it was correspondingly great at other cities. 1 The department of labor reports that there is no unemployment this Christ" mas except among clerks and that ; wages are somewhat higher this year than last. Patrons of 5?anta Claus kept his , elerks busy loading bis sleds In gd n during the pat two weeks. Judged from the decided Increase during the past 10 days In receipts at the poi-t-offlco. I All records have been broken at tho postoffice In the amount of parcel post packages bandied during the past two weeks. based on reports received from various var-ious business houses throughout tho city a QjUph larger number of practical prac-tical gifts were purchased than In former years. These ranged from Jewelry to wearing apparel. Bank clearings for the jear will approximate ap-proximate 221,000,000, an average of $ 1 s.r.no.OiiO a month The monthly clearings for the past five monihv ttave mounted steadily, officials of the clearing house said last night. The postal receipts for tho year of 102 1 wore $19,000 In round numbers and up to December 22 the receipts wore more than $19,000 this year with eight more business days In the year to be added. Postmaster Pufus A. i lamer suid List night that the receipts re-ceipts will easily approximate $23,000 at the close of the year, an increase of $4,000, which he pointed out means a tremendous increase in the number of parcel post packages handled and for which stamps were purchased. Hankers throughout the city expressed ex-pressed optimistic views yesterday relative rel-ative to business conditions, stating that the new year wjs being ap-pmaeherj ap-pmaeherj with business in n much sounder condition and with a much' brighter outlook than at the close of! 1921. 1 |