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...Manhattan's Harlem one afternoon last week a dusky little Puerto Rican of 16 wandered past the cutlery counter in a Kress 5-10-25? store on 125th Street . Into Lino Rivera's kinky, stocking-capped head popped the notion of stealing a penknife to match his pen & pencil set at home. Into the pocket of Lino Rivera's leather coat a moment later popped the 10? knife...
These were hurriedly passed out among the throngs of Negro idlers up & down teeming 125th Street. Believing that one of their own race had been victimized, a black rabble of 3,000 marched to the Kress store. Orators hoisted themselves up to shout against the additional injustice of white storekeepers in Harlem refusing to employ Negro help. Squads of white police arrived on the scene to be met with a barrage of stones and bottles. Before long three officers were hospitalized. Thereupon, the police waded in roughly with nightsticks, made arrests right & left. At this critical point a hearse drove...
...Wendel mansion on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term to S. H. Kress & Co. who planned to build a 5¢-10¢-and-25¢ store...
Located in the heart of Manhattan's retail shopping district, a few doors north of Lord & Taylor, Best & Co. and Franklin Simon and across the street from Arnold Constable & Co., the Wendel mansion and grounds were appraised last April at $4,500,000. S. H. Kress & Co. announced that they would replace the gloomy old house with the finest store in their system. But competition will be close at hand. A block up Fifth Avenue is F. W. Woolworth's famed Store No. 1000, opened in 1918 and stocked with quality goods to attract sophisticated Fifth Avenue shoppers...
...England merchants reported a gain of 8.9% for February but the average gain for the U. S. was estimated to be 20% to 25%. Springfield (Mass.) reported a jump of 62%. ]. J. C. Penney's chain stores reported sales for the first two months up 41%. S. H. Kress sales were up 30%, Great Atlantic & Pacific up 5.18%. Montgomery Ward reported another roaring month in February with sales up 52.2%. Their retail stores showed an increase of 29.9%, their mail order division 80.7%. General Motors' sales to consumers in February topped 58,900 units against...