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Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck & Co.: "I narrowly escaped death. At a grade crossing near Chicago my automobile, was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio train. I leaped from my place at the wheel, was unhurt. My automobile, wrecked, was carried more than 100 yards down the track...
...test of the farmers' prosperity has in the past been afforded by the earnings of the large mail-order houses. The annual report of Sears, Roebuck & Co. is consequently illuminating...
Sales by Sears, Roebuck & Co. for the first nine months this year totaled $151 millions, as against $121 millions for last year-a gain of 25.12%. In the same comparative periods, Montgomery, Ward & Co. show sales of $90 millions and $59 millions-a gain of 51.60% over last year. F. W. Woolworth Co. has run 14.83% ahead of 1922 in the first nine months, with sales of $125 millions against $109 millions. During the same period the S. S. Kresge stores increased their sales 27.57%; the McCrory stores...
Meditate upon heroes. The day is easily recalled when Francis X. Bushman was the brightest star of evening. He was the squarejawed, peg-top hero who resembled models of elegance of the Sears-Roebuck Co. Nowadays it is Rodolph Valentino, his fame somewhat muddied of late, but still Rodolph...
What Sears-Roebuck and Montgomery-Ward disposed of during March...