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...business trip. He marched through its marble-lined railroad station, climbed into a shiny taxicab, rode up Zenith's Main Street, admiring a handsome museum, four handsome churches, a dozen glittering drug stores. After he had dined on excellent roast beef in his hotel, Bill Smith lit a cigar and strolled out to a cinema, making up his mind on the way that he would tell his wife Zenith was a "great town...
...funeral parlors, calls morticians by their first names, after lunch goes to his Record desk where undertakers telephone a steady stream of death notices. Each evening he carefully follows every notice into the printed page, then trollies home at 1:15 a.m., sits up half-an-hour with a cigar for a final paternal check on the accuracy of the Record's death notice column...
That sort of thing was Horatio Alger justice, for Mr. Schulte has worked hard all his life. At 15 he started as a clerk in a Sixth Avenue drygoods store. Two years later he went to work as a cigar clerk for his brother-in-law. A partner at 25, he owned the firm and its five stores two years later in 1900. There were soon more stores and diligent Mr. Schulte, working hard in a dingy Manhattan office, paid less & less attention to tobacco, more & more to real estate. In 1926, which is the year Mr. Schulte...
...Schulte, Whelan Drug Co. and United Cigar Stores Co. got together and started 59 Schulte-United 5?-to-$1 stores throughout the U. S. United Cigar got out of that just before the 1929 market collapse and in 1931 Schulte-United slipped quietly into receivership. Now there are only 20 Schulte-United Stores, none of them in New York...
...breathes in 500 milligrams of nicotine every week. Whether this gradual dosage does harm may be debatable, but few are the smokers who would not leap at a chance to avoid nicotine as long as the method did not involve giving up smoking. On sale last week in United Cigar Stores, Liggett Drug Stores, Schulte Cigar Stores and many a hotel in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles was a device making such a boon to smokers available for the first time. So simple that it seems at first glance a quackery, the gadget has a pedigree weighty...