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Chicago's $5,000,000 clothing store, The Hub, Henry C. Lytton & Co., last week took a 20-year lease on a South Side building where it will house its second city branch after the war. Other Chicago merchants did not think this such staggering news, but what did interest them was the man who signed the lease: Henry Charles Lytton, almost 99 years...
Henry Charles Lytton was busy at his first job, in a dry goods store in his native New York City, before the Civil War was two years old. Three years later, he went off to the frontier in Michigan, opened a store which he ran for 15 years before he went broke...
...recouped his losses, managed to save $12,000. Then he had leased his Chicago corner, spent $2,500 on fixings, $3,500 on advertising, and set out to make a million. He did just that. By 1912, the business had prospered so that Henry Lytton was able to move across the street into the new, $2,500,000 Lytton Building...
...troubled days of peace to come, the Church fails to be this conscience, there will be at first only deepening doldrums in what Lytton Strachey once called "the vast calm waters of Christian thought...
This is Queen Victoria's eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max's brisk, elegiac tribute (Lytton Strachey; Knopf; $1) to his late great friend was published in the U.S. It was also the tribute of a dying age to one of the most distinguished of its dead. Wrote Sir Max: "We are told . . . that the present century is to be the Century of the Common Man. We are all of us to go down on our knees . . . and worship...