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Died, Henry C. Bohack, 66, president of H. C. Bohack Co., Inc., a chain of 740 grocery stores; of heart disease; in Kew Gardens, L. I. Born the son of a German farmer, he went to the U. S. when he was 17, got a job clerking in a grocery store for $7 per month & board. In three years he saved enough to go into business with a friend, whose sister he later married. He opened the first store under his own name in 1887 at 1291 Broadway, Brooklyn. It is still in operation. In later years he told...
Another indication of Hotel Depression was the report made last week by the Bowman-Biltmore chain, with hotels in Manhattan, Los Angeles, Providence, Atlanta and Havana, which showed a $121,000 loss for the six months ended June 30 against a $492,000 profit before Federal taxes in the corresponding 1930 period. Dinkier Hotels Co., operating in the South (Hotel Ansley, Atlanta; the Tutwiler, Birmingham; the Andrew Jackson, Nashville) last year earned $62,000 against $251,000 in 1929. A drop to $84,000 from $120,000 was shown last year by big United Hotels Co. of America which operates...
Cost studies will be made of the chain store system in connection with shoe, drug, and junior department stores. Last year's studies on the chain grocery business and on department and specialty stores excited much comment. The survey of grocery stores included 100 chain companies, with 33,482 stores, and is the first authentic one to be made...
...Anti-Chinese Society, backed by local authority, gave orders for the expulsion of all Chinese from his province by Sept. 5. The adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...
...jail at Blackpool, England, Frank Sheridan ate his breakfast, then ate his spoon. Still hungry, he tore the chain and staple from his cell door and ate them too. Satisfied, Prisoner Sheridan lay down, went to sleep...