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Show BUSINESS FEELING IS MORE CONFIDENT NEW i.iRK, Sept. 2. Bradstreets' says: 'Irregularity still characterizes trade, industrial rop and price- movements move-ments to a remarkable degree, but a rather more confident feeling Is in the business community as autumn draws nearer. I miuestlonably the I biggest feature of the week is the aciual ending of the soft coal strike and the prospect that the anthracite strike la in Its last hours. "Satisfaction at these departments, however, is tempered by the knowledge know-ledge that the members of the railway rail-way shopmen's strike, outside of union circles, pretty generally regarded as a failure, are still an Irritating element, ele-ment, slowing down, the heavy move-' ments of grain, coal, lumber and raw materials of manufacture, while acting act-ing also to prevent free shipments of finished products to market and in some areas causing an appearance of scarcity of products which has not really Justified "Weekly bank clearings 56.537.9C9 -000 " |