Word: store
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Born: Oct. 14, 1890, at Denison, Texas. His parents, David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth, had met at Lane University, a United Brethren school in Lecompton, Kans.; after failing in a general-store business at Hope, Kans., father David moved his family briefly to Texas, where he worked as a railroad hand, but soon returned to Kansas...
...tiny terrace home in the Lancashire cotton city of Bolton (pop. 200,000), a milkman set down three pint bottles. "They usually take four," he said, "but with one or two of them on short time, they're down to two or three." At the grocery store down the street, Bolton housewives were no longer buying their full egg ration (one per week). A big bakery, supplying Bolton's suburbs, cut its daily bake by 1,000 loaves...
...from Boston was picked by the first lieutenant at dinner today, and unless we shortly fall in with something of a prize, salt junk and biscuit must be our portion . . ." But then, "Old Ironsides" captured a British schooner and Chaplain Humphreys wrote: "A perfect slop ship and grocery store . . . bountiful cheer for Christmas...
Audience Participation. In Englewood, Colo., a customer went into the Spencer Sporting Goods Store, asked Manager E. E. Tyson to show him a pistol, examined it, loaded it with his own bullets, aimed it and murmured: "This is a stickup...
...Rhinestone pin adorning the average 'Cliffe girl's Jersey may loog like a gem, but chances are that she bought it inexpensively at the costume jewelery counter of any large department store...