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...Macy, Nantucket Quaker, Gold Rush Forty-Niner, whaling captain and grocery store owner, founded Macy's in 1858. The original Macy store (14th St. and Sixth Avenue) embodied present Macy policies of a cash business and "odd" prices (9¢ and 18¢ rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874 Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan and Isidor Straus...
Present head of Macy's is Jesse Isidor Straus, who always wishes to have his middle name written in full out of respect to the memory of his father. Purchasing Bamberger's was a logical step because, situated on the west side of Manhattan, many a Macy customer is a New Jerseyite and the two great stores were competing ever more keenly. Friends of Mr. Straus twittingly asked whether he bought Bamberger's with the discount at which Macy's aims to sell all merchandise...
...fraternal quarrel arose from Filene expansion plans. Having last winter acquired Boston's R. H. White Co. (TIME, Dec. 10), the Filene management next discussed merger arrangements with Abraham & Straus, Inc., of Brooklyn and with F. & R. Lazarus & Co., of Columbus, Ohio. Feeling that the proposed consolidation would submerge individual prominence and kudos, Brother Edward Filene secured a temporary injunction prohibiting transfer of Filene stock to the holding company which was being planned to operate the three stores. He maintained that he had been disregarded in the merger plans, that no merger should be permitted without his having...
...Seniors may call at Straus 23 and receive their tickets for the Senior Spread and also the invitations...
Last chance for Seniors to redeem surplus tickets this morning at Straus 23 between 10 and 1 o'clock...