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...mild epidemic." In Chicago, where there were 228 cases, health and education officials still refused to open schools. In Philadelphia, an 11-year-old sufferer was brought to a city hospital from Williamsport and in the ensuing scare, Philadelphia's mayor forbade any hospital to accommodate out-of-town cases. But the biggest infantile paralysis news of the week lay in two new artificial lungs, cheaper and simpler than the $1,000 to $2,450 big steel boxes...
Macy's insisted that it was all an experiment, a response to continual requests from out-of-town department stores whose patrons supposedly make many a trip to New York to stock up at Macy's. To give them a kind of room service and oblige local shopkeepers Macy's set up a new corporation, Supremacy Products, Inc.. under President Percy Selden Straus's eldest son, Ralph. To a selected store in each trading area Ralph stands ready to sell "Macy's Own" merchandise "price free," i.e., to be marked down...
...small group of newshawks, most of them local and familiar but some of them from out-of-town, stood around the desk of the Governor of Pennsylvania one day last week eying a prosaic-looking man with drooping eyelids. Said Governor George Howard Earle III: "Gentlemen, I have something here that may or may not be important to you but I feel very strongly about it at this time...
...building had never seen the kind of party which he gave there last week, his annual entertainment for the Press. Upwards of 700 people attended, the men predominantly young fellows who work on Washington's newspapers and in the local bureaus of agencies and out-of-town papers ; the women, some wives, some newspaper women but the majority lively young things who spend their days at typewriters or store counters, pretty as debutantes are not. They had the time of their lives in their swankiest $11.98 copies of Paris models, dancing in the President's parlor, strolling...
...Harry Hart throve on the strenuous Chicago pace, opening a small clothing store in Chicago in 1872. When an out-of-town merchant admired their stocks, the Hart boys offered to supply him with a few suits, a move which soon led to the establishment of a wholesale house, one of their backers being a relative named Marcus Marx, who had run a general store in Hastings, Minn. Aside from drawing down profits, that was all that Marx ever had to do with Hart Schaffner & Marx...