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...floor show of the Edgewater Beach Hotel. But their destination was not the Lake front but State Street. Henceforth Chicago's great shopping street-long distinguished with the names of such merchants as Marshall Field and Carson Pirie Scott & Co.-will be blazoned with the name of Goldblatt...
...Brothers Goldblatt arrived on State Street is a none too happy incident in the corporate history of Marshall Field. On State Street, at the southern edge of the Loop where cheaper stores congregate, used to stand the Davis Store. Field's bought it in 1923 for $9,000,000. Unfortunately, shoppers who wanted bargains chose to patronize Field's basement rather than the Davis Store. And shoppers who could afford quality goods would not be caught in the Davis Store on a bet. After ups and downs and changes of management, Davis lost, all told, some...
Born in Staushov, Poland, Brothers Morris, Nathan and Louis made their entry into the U. S. at Ellis Island 30 years ago-before Brother Joseph was born. While Father Goldblatt set up a grocery business, the Goldblatt boys sold newspapers, later got jobs as clerks in a Milwaukee Avenue store. In 1914, by the time elder Brother Morris was 21, they had saved up a few-hundred dollars to set up their own store at Chicago and Ashland Avenues. In 1915 they did $35,000 gross business, in 1920, $225,000, in 1925 $1.825,000 and pushed their profits...
...Maurice (he is still Morris on corporation statements but he is generally Maurice on social occasions) lives on Sheridan Road. Every morning his Duesenberg calls for him and after stopping to pick up Brother Nathan, who lives nearby, they drive to their luxuriously paneled, air-cooled offices in the Goldblatt warehouse, on lower Lincoln Avenue. Thither from their slightly less pretentious bachelors' apartment come younger Brothers Louis and Joseph in a Lincoln. The Goldblatt family is scrupulously graded by seniority. Maurice and Nathan as "the partners" draw top salaries of $25,000 each, but Maurice, as senior...
Peritonitis. Drs. Bernard Steinberg and Harry Goldblatt of Cleveland took pus from the diseased peritoneum of one patient, made a vaccine of the pus, and with that vaccine cured other cases of peritonitis...