Montgomery Ward Reports 1920 Loss Despite Record Sales
The Montgomery Ward & Co statement shows a 1920 loss of 7 8 278 including depreciation though sales reached a record high. First seven months up 34 percent from 1918, price cuts later caused heavy losses. Inventory depreciated 5 174 434 below cost. December 1920 inventory 30 282 671. Net 1920 sales 191 745 270 with total assets 62 695 630. Surplus end 1919 12 342 922, profit and loss surplus end 1920 2 429 772. Federal taxes 860 326 paid in 1919.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward & Co
Storekeeper's Outcries Frighten Robbers Away
Two robbers tried to loot the grocery store of Abraham Simon at 34 Washington Street Somerville last evening but were frightened out of the store by the storekeeper's outcries and alarm.
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Abraham Simon
Washington Street
Somerville
Robbery at Grocery Store Ends With Robbers Fleeing
Simon cried for help as two men forced entry and searched drawers for savings. One struck him with a pistol butt. both fled along the B M railroad tracks before police arrival. Simon suffered no serious injury and no money was taken. He could not provide clear descriptions of the assailants.
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Simon
Thieves Steal $1.20 but Take Only Knowledge in Break‑In
In Spartanburg South Carolina on February 3 burglars entered the First Baptist Church and the public library. They took $1.20 from the church and the janitor's overalls from the library, but no books were stolen, leaving shelves ransacked with no volumes missing.
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Spartanburg
8. C
First Baptist Church
Wendell Phillips in Boston Memory and Moral Echoes
A historical reminiscence recalls Wendell Phillips praise and mob ordeal in Boston. Henry Ward Beecher recounts the 1884 tribute procession and the crowd’s tearful reverence for the abolitionist leader. It also recalls Phillips’s early fame at Faneuil Hall and Harriet Martineau’s note on his courage and eloquence.
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Wendell Phillips
Boston
Henry Ward Beecher
Plymouth
Parker House
School Street
Faneuil Hall
Lovejoy
George William Curtis
Phillips
Mr. Curtis
Harriet Martineau
Westminster Review
Young &Paker
Irish Victim Was War Hero
Dublin reports District Inspector Francis Worthington Craven among ambuscade victims at Ballinalee. Craven, a navy veteran awarded American and British honors, commanded the destroyer Mounsey and saved 600 Americans from the Otranto after a 1918 collision near Islay Island. He retired as lieutenant commander and joined the Royal Irish Constabulary weeks earlier.
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Dublin
Francis Worthington Craven
Ballinalee
Mounsey
Otranto
Kashmir
Craven
Navy
Royal Irish Constabulary
Islay Island
Davidson
Medal Awarded to Lieutenant Craven in 1919
President Wilson awarded the American Distinguished Services Medal to Lieutenant Craven in 1919. The presentation occurred at Chatham England in February of that year by Major General John Biddle commander of American forces in the United Kingdom.
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Wilson
Craven
Chatham
England
John Biddle
United Kingdom
Funeral Services for Timothy Reagan in North Cambridge
Solemn high mass at St. John's Church North Cambridge at 9 this morning for Timothy Reagan aged 74 of 2% Creighton Street North Cambridge who died at home after a shock linked to grief for his wife. He is survived by daughter Mrs W J Buckley and Edmund F Reagan of Reagan Kipp Company Boston and others living out of town. Interment will be at Malden.
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St. John's Church
North Cambridge
Timothy Reagan
Cambridge
Creighton Street
W. J. Buckley
Edmund F. Reagan
Reagan
Kipp Company
Boston
Malden
Census Ordered to Gauge Liquor Stock Held by Wholesale Druggists
Prohibition Commissioner Kramer orders a nationwide census of liquor in wholesale druggists’ possession to assess how long withdrawal bans from bonded warehouses should continue. Federal directors will report estimates of untaxed liquor in districts, guiding whether limited sales to five cases for retail stock on the floor may persist.
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Washington
Prohibition
Kramer
Internal Revenue
Winning Insteader Line Earns $100 Prize
The day’s answer for Insteader No 45 was written by C. C. Winchester of 91 Chestnut Street Everett Mass He received a $100 check from the Post under contest rules The humor centers on plans gone wrong with a broncho busting mishap The winning line’s author is a clerk at 420 Boylston Street Boston born in Nova Scotia and living in Eastern Massachusetts for two decades
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C. C. Winchester
Chestnut Street
Everett
Mass
Boylston Street
Boston
Nova Scotia
Massachusetts
Boston Post
Post
Boston Play
Westend
P. O
Laren
Nswers
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Chapeaux du Temps
Milan
Temple Place
Tremont Street
Crepe de Chine
Havana
Eton
Winter Street
the Shepard Stores
Miss Muffet
BY William Justin Mann
Mr. Phillips
U. S
Amen Grocery Stores
Dainty Company
Maine
All America Shoe Shops
Summer St
Tremont St
Insteader” No
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