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...Bill") Thompson of Chicago had, up to last week, gone to his office only three times: once to be sworn in, once to handshake Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, once to be photographed at his desk. Mayor Thompson spends most of his time, in short-sleeved shirt, with cigar in mouth, surrounded by spittoons, henchmen and pictures of himself, in a "suit" of rooms at Chicago's Hotel Sherman...
...General Cigar...
...painful situation required thought. The clerks thought, and their thoughts rose like thin spirals of incense through the executive organization of the Happiness Candy Stores, to the executive organization of the United Cigar Stores, which operates the Happiness chain. And last week the plan took form, which made the diligent store clerks rejoice...
...Happiness Candy Stores best located in New York City, the United Cigar Stores will put a stock of drugs. The candy and restaurant business will be reduced to coordinated departments of those drug stores, according to the best practice of chain merchandising. If the first stores do good business, United Cigar Stores will make more Happiness Candy Stores into United Cigar drug stores. Later will be occluded by the chain the 64 drug stores operated by the United Retail Chemists' Corporation, a United Cigar Stores subsidiary. And later will come more retail outlets. Then Louis Kroh Liggett...
...City of Philipopolis, onetime capital of the ancient independent country of Rumelia, was laid utterly in ruins. Some 80,000 families have now no shelter. The enormous tobacco warehouses crumpled like smashed cigar boxes. A heavy rain destroyed the value of their stocks, prime, world-famed Turkish leaf...