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When Eddy was seven, his kinfolk left him an old Sears, Roebuck guitar and he learned to pluck a few chords and sing a few songs. When he got bigger, he started playing Saturday-night dances for 75? in Henderson, Tenn. Eddy could then afford to spark the girls to the extent of 50?. "And man, you spend that much on a girl where I come from, and she wants you to come back...
Even before the war, the Big Five no longer dominated the merchandising field. Piggly Wiggly, Sears, Roebuck and others had moved in. Now Pan American and United Air Lines finished cracking the transport monopoly once enjoyed by the Big Five's Matson steamship line. More visitors were arriving in Hawaii by air than by sea. But the Big Five still supplies most of the direction and driving power for the islands' economy...
...earned Wallace only $300 in the first seven months. But nine years later, in 1889, 400,000 copies had been sold. In 1913, Sears Roebuck ordered a million copies. Just before the play was produced, Charles Frohman said to Producers Klaw & Erlanger: "Boys, I'm afraid you're up against it-the American public will never stand for Christ and a horse race in the same show." The play ran for 21 years...
Most Sears, Roebuck & Co. stores are plain, functional buildings with big show windows and large, eye-hitting signs. But last week the mail-order chain opened a new store that was a sport; it had only a few small windows and it looked like a citadel in Spain. Its single sign was restrained and inconspicuous...
Police established that the girl had purchased both the gun and a box of ammunition at the Massachusetts Avenue branch of Sears Roebuck and Co. last Tuesday. Yesterday a salesman identified the girl, who is the daughter of Mrs. Dorothea C. P. Flint, house-mother of Elliot Hall, from photographs...