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When the Jones Brothers started the world's only Negro-owned department store they had to buy the property to get onto 47th Street. When dapper little Frank Howell Jr. started Mae's Dress Shoppe, he was forced to pay six-and-a-half months' rent in...
We glanced at the name on the window of the establishment and beheld the inscription: "IVY CORSET SHOPPE." Frankly, the name stumped us. Ivy is a beautiful plant, and corsets make women more beautiful. Was this the relation the Shoppe was trying to imply, we wondered? We fingered a two...
Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Calls to Columbia 1492 last night drew nothing but a busy signal. Investigation revealed a beauty shoppe on the other end. Attempts to call October 1212 drew only the operator.
¶ One April day, six years ago when Herbert Hoover was President, Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, cashier of a "Garden T Shoppe" in Washington was mortally wounded in a holdup. One Thomas Jordon, 31-year-old busboy, was among those suspected. Two years ago Thomas Jordon, living in Mount Vernon, N...
Interviewed "shoppe" proprietresses were dubious about how universal would be the spread of the style but asserted any brunette could emulate King Edward's feminine interest by undergoing their treatment, viz. having hair parted smoothly in middle with either a few curls or a complete coil across back.