Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affairs of his venerable company about ten years ago, he might have had no annual report to sign last week. Founded as a one-room store in Boston in the 1870's by the late Edward Burgess ("E. B.") Butler and his two brothers, the company was a mail-order wholesale house for nearly half a century. Indeed, the company claims it issued the first mail-order catalog in the U. S. As late as 1923 Butler Brothers was making more than $3,000,000 annually on its catalog alone...
...skin. Catering chiefly to small-town merchants, the company began to suffer in the 1920's. Automobiles and good roads, carrying shoppers to larger cities, cut into the rural merchant's trade. Better transportation also carried salesmen to the merchants that survived, undercutting Butler's mail-order business still further. Meantime chain stores were mushrooming...
...Friday's Mail Mr. Hays writes: ". . . the N.S.L. and the S.L.I.D., of which it (the new Harvard Student Union) is largely composed . . ." This assertion is quite unfounded. Figures obtained from two reliable sources give the following memberships to the uniting organizations...
...things: gold and news from home. The transport of both at fabulous rates became the expressman's job.† That they go through, come hell or highwayman, became almost his religion. At first carried by foot, horse, skis, dogsled, rowboat or river steamer, the treasure and mail eventually rode almost exclusively in the famed Concord stages, the first of which reached San Francisco June...
Wells Fargo had found little trouble in getting its hands on Butterfield's Overland Mail line in 1861 or on its successor, the Pony Express. But in 1869 it was caught napping while the first transcontinental railroad pushed through. When Wells Fargo put in a bid for the rail express contract, it found that an upstart named Pacific Union Express already had it. Simultaneously, it discovered the same concern had beaten down Wells Fargo stock from $100 to $13, then bought in, acquired control. In 1872, following a vast shuffle of officers, Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco became president...