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Charles Rudolph Walgreen runs the largest chain of drug stores in the U. S. and prizes the few hours a day he can spare with his family. Each morning in the ivory-colored dining room of his Chicago apartment, overlooking Lake Michigan and the South Shore Country Club, short, bald Drugman Walgreen and his wife take breakfast together. Before Daughter Ruth and Son Charles Jr. were married, they, too, turned up for breakfast. The Walgreens are given to talking much over their eggs. But since Mrs. Walgreen's niece Lucille Norton graduated from a Seattle high school and went...
...November sales were 7% ahead of 1933. Montgomery Ward rang up the best November in five years. Many a chainstore reported gains of 10% or more. Chevrolet sold 50,000 cars to consumers last month? top figure for November since 1926 when an all-time high was established. Walgreen Co. (drugstore chain) reported the best November in history...
...Streets of Paris $1,465,000 Century News Inc. (guide books & souvenirs) 1,332,000 Eitel. Inc. (Old Heidelberg, Rotisserie, etc.) 1,138,000 College Inn Management, Inc. (Pabst Blue Ribbon Casino) 879,000 Sky ride 757,000 Pay Toilets 728,000 Belgian Village 637,000 Walgreen Co. (2 drug stores) 671,000* Ripley's "Believe...
Three weeks ago Ratkiller Nicholes was called to Chicago by some companies in the rat-infested stockyards and by the Walgreen drug stores and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. He arrived in the automobile in which he pursues rats throughout the U. S., bringing with him two large suitcases and his young wife. Ratkiller Nicholes went to work. Wherever rats were plentiful he distributed pieces of bread, hamburger steak and apples, in each piece of food a drop of his chemical (barium carbonate with a slight touch of barium sulphide). Because the Nicholes poison is comparatively slow acting the rats...
...Foshay is now engaged as vice president of Mountain Cross Granite Co. of Salida, Col., owned by Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Chicago drugchainer. Over the Foshay desk used to hang a motto which apparently serves to temper his prosperity as well as his adversity: "Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...