Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ellenton, S.C. (pop. 700) was one of those backwater Southern villages where nothing much ever happened and the people liked it that way. Old families-the Ashleys, the Dunbars and the Foremans-made a living from their fields of peanuts and cotton. Aging Mike Cassels ran his rambling general store-"de long stoah," the Negroes called it. Sharecropper kids scampered and chickens pecked in the dust among the shacks and privies and chinaberry trees of the colored section...
...novels of Jack London, sled dogs were immortalized after the epic dash to carry diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925. Since then, though the airplane and bulldozer have displaced the Husky as Arctic freight haulers, the Huskies have served man well. Shearer, president of a Boston furniture store, served in World War II, as did many of the other dogsled racers, with the Arctic search & rescue units of the Air Force...
Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. is a 104-year-old Manhattan store to which a Park Avenue dowager goes automatically if she wants a washboard, and to which an Indian prince once wrote for a bronco (he got it). For a price, its customers can get every nicety of modern living-from ten varieties of outdoor grills and 90 types of coffeemakers to rhinestone dog collars (for the cocktail hour) and bronze fig leaves (for statues...
Last week Mrs. Else Schlemmer, a small, soft-eyed woman in her 50s, who has run the store since her husband, William F. Schlemmer, died in 1945, called a special meeting of the staff. Standing beside a counter, she announced that she had made a new will. Among the principal beneficiaries: more than 100 employees. Said Mrs. Schlemmer: "I have no children. You are my children ... I have not only taken special note of you who have done an outstanding job for and with us for many years, but I have also taken this step to show my appreciation...
Groping and still inarticulate, Will went through his years. His idea of fun was to sit in hotel lobbies. Even after he had money, he slept with his socks on. At the end, he was an old eccentric wandering the Chicago streets; he took a job as a department store Santa Claus and died in his red flannel suit...