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Rowland Hussey Macy, Nantucket Quaker, Gold Rush Forty-Niner, whaling captain and grocery store owner, founded Macy's in 1858. The original Macy store (14th St. and Sixth Avenue) embodied present Macy policies of a cash business and "odd" prices (9¢ and 18?? rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874 Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan...
...price of copper last week reached its highest point in the last nine years. Copper for export was quoted at 18??¢ per pound, domestic copper at 18??. Copper had been steady at around 15¢ since October...
...years ago U. S. rubbermen were paying 22¢ a pound for rubber raised at a cost of 18?? a pound on British rubber plantations. Then the Chancellor of the British Exchequer, Winston Churchill, succeeded in enforcing restrictions on British rubber production. Soon the price of rubber mounted to $1.20 a pound (TIME, Aug. 3, 1925), a rise of almost 500% in 13 months. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover protested, but the U.S. public continued apathetic. Big rubbermen took steps. Harvey Firestone told his son Harvey Jr. to take steps to Liberia...
...Fredericksburg, Va., a man named Samuel T. Johnson, color not announced, whose collars measure 18?? in., whose frame weighs 230 pounds, stated that he was " anxious to fight Jack Dempsey" and went into training. Johnson is 29 years...
...birthrate drops, especially in the professional classes of native American stock. But, thanks to the prolific immigrant, the excess of births over deaths hold its own. The highest rate for 1922 was 30.2?in North Carolina; the lowest was 18??? in the State of Washington...