In 1879 he opened his first successful 5-&-10-cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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JUNE 21, 1879: Frank Woolworth opened his FIRST successful ...  ... opened his first successful Woolworth's 5 and 10 Cent Store in Lancaster, PA. ...... store he opened on June 21, 1879 in Lancaster, Pa., became a success.
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F. W. Woolworth Company - Wikipedia  Using the sign from the Utica store, Woolworth opened his first successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on July 18, 1879, in Lancaster. He brought his...
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JUNE 21, 1879: Frank Woolworth opened his first successful ...  JUNE 21, 1879: Frank Woolworth opened his first successful Woolworth's 5 and 10 Cent Store in Lancaster, PA. His first store ... It failed in six months, but the second store he opened in June of the same year seemed to catch on. On February...
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A store is born - Woolworth's 21 June 1879 - the Woolworths Museum  Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA - the first successful Woolworth store ... As planned he had settled his debts and traded until the end of the lease in the the New York state store, ... There was a key difference second time around - 10 cent as well as 5 cent lines. ... Frank Woolworth opened for business on June, 21st 1879.
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JUNE 21, 1879: Frank Woolworth opened his first successful ...  ... opened his first successful Woolworth's 5 and 10 Cent Store in Lancaster, PA. ... However, a second store he opened on June 21, 1879 in Lancaster, Pa.,...
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EJ not the only shoe company with a footprint in Tier  Apr 28, 2016 ... Kinney Shoes, succeeded by Foot Locker, had its beginnings in the region. ... Despite these tragedies, George had saved enough to pay his father's ... Then, in 1894, he opened a storefront in Waverly, Tioga County, to sell the shoes at a ... to Wilkes Barre, continuing to expand his chain of retail shoe stores.
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Hershey Community Archives | Lancaster Caramel Company  Milton Hershey started the Lancaster Caramel Company in 1886 after he ... The Lancaster business would be his third confectionery venture. The new business was first located in Jacob Gable's big warehouse on the west ... Help came when Hershey needed it most from the cashier at the Lancaster County National Bank.
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia  Lancaster is a city located in South Central Pennsylvania which serves as the seat of ... Lancaster was capital of Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1812, after which the ... According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.4 .... Central Market is listed with the National Register of Historic Places, and its...
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The man behind the chocolate bar - The Hershey Story  good education, the fact that, later on, he insisted the boys in his school have a ... This was the secret that would make his fortune but for the moment, in 1886, he ... The success of his caramel business enabled Mr. Hershey, for the first time in ... Lancaster where he began producing his own chocolate  114 varieties in all.
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In The Footsteps Of Franklin Philadelphia's Most Famous Citizen ...  Jan 12, 1990 ... That's Interstate 95, where the Market Street Wharf used to be. ... Indian King Tavern (near Third and Market), ran a printing shop and post office (at 131 Market ... Young Benjamin Franklin, who had run out on his printing ... Here, he started publishing the wildly successful Poor Richard's Almanack and took...
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History of J.C. Penney Company, Inc.  FundingUniverse  James Cash Penney started his first retail store in 1902 in Kemmerer, Wyoming, a small .... the company from a mass merchant into a national department store.
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J. C. Penney - Historic Missourians - The State Historical Society of ...  James Cash Penney was born on September 16, 1875, on a farm in Caldwell .... and Guy Johnson, who owned dry goods stores called Golden Rule stores in ... The store name represented his religious beliefs and gave him a business motto. ... He opened the first J. C. Penney Store in his home state of Missouri on April 15,...
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1870-CC Liberty Seated Dollar - PCGS.com  The first Carson City Mint coins were silver dollars minted from 1870-dated dies on ... All were struck using a press made in Philadelphia by Morgan & Orr (see below). Each 1870-CC dollar bore the distinctive CC mintmark on the reverse.
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Industries - Business History  1728 - Walter Churchman started apothecary business in Bristol, England; ..... the freezer using the weighted top-mounted handle; beating brought all cream in ..... England's leading food purveyor, accepted all seven products for distribution; ...... 1903 - James L. Kraft (29) began a wholesale cheese business in Chicago with...
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Pleasant Family Shopping: Mr. Penney, Mountains & Main Street  Nov 21, 2011 ... In the mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming in 1902, conditions were hard. ... James Cash Penney (yes, that was his real middle name, he would assert on .... in town did, Penney pressed on with his plans to open on a cash-only basis. ... and Penney opened their first Golden Rule Store in Kemmerer, a one...
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Foot Locker, Inc. - Celebrates 100 Years On NYSE  Frank Winfield Woolworth opened the original five-and-dime store in 1879. ... In 1963, F.W. Woolworth Company purchased the Kinney Shoe Corporation,...
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Our History - Walmart  Inspired by the early success of his dime store, and driven to bring even ... On July 2, 1962, Sam Walton opened the first Walmart store in Rogers, Ark. .... of the Board of Directors for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. He continues to serve as a Director.
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About Us | Ben & Jerry's  With a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State and a $12,000 investment ($4,000 ... The old gas station is demolished to create a parking lot. ... from Portland, Maine, Cherry Garcia becomes the first ice cream named for a rock legend ... The flavor rockets to the top of the most-popular-in-pints list.
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Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine - H.J. Heinz: Relish success  He built one of the nation's first and greatest branded goods companies. .... He personally designed New York's first large electric sign at 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue. It was six stories high and topped by a giant green pickle 40 feet long bearing ... By 1900, the Heinz complex of 17 buildings on Pittsburgh's North Side was a...
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1870-CC $1 (Regular Strike) - PCGS CoinFacts  SERIES: Liberty Seated Dollars 1840-1873 ..... The first Carson City Mint coins were silver dollars minted from 1870-dated dies on February 10, 1870, a quantity of 3,747 pieces. All were struck using a press made in Philadelphia by Morgan & Orr (see ... Each 1870-CC dollar bore the distinctive CC mintmark on the reverse.
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TANDY, CHARLES DAVID | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas ...  Jun 15, 2010 ... In 1961 he opened the first in a chain of hobby supermarkets at Fort ... a chain of nine Boston-based retail stores known as Radio Shack, then selling electronics components. Radio Shack flourished, and by 1963 annual sales of the growing ... fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.