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English department store owners visit Boston tour of U S commerce
Twenty leading English Drapers' Chamber of Trade members head F W Cook arrive in New York for a six week U S tour to study American department store methods. The delegation will tour coast to coast with a Boston luncheon at Copley Plaza attended by Governor Coolidge and 500 guests, followed by a 3 to 5 pm car tour and dinner at Brae Burn Country Club.
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England
Drapers’ Chamber of Trade
United Kingdom
Boston
F. W. Cook
New York
America
Drapers
United States
Simon Halle
Cleveland
National Retail Dry Goods Association of America
F. W. Cook, Ltd
Dudley
Worcestershire
Bristol
Birmingham
The
Chamber of Trade
Chamber of Commerce of
Worcester
Imperial Chamber of Commerce
Fred Longley
Douglas Murfin Rose
T. M. Hardwick
George Hardwick & Sons, Ltd
London
William J. Hunter
Yorkshire
Frank Chiesman
A. N. Hollely
Pophams, Ltd
Devon
Charles Phillips Weber
Oxford Chamber of Trade
John A. Boardman
Ernest Barton Weekes
Charles Thomas Coleing
F. Holgate Barber
Lewis C. Lyne
Debenham & Freebody
F. W. F. Matthew
Preston
Frederick Grose
Woolen and Drapers’ Institution
Lewis Moore
Leeds Chamber of Trades
Copley Plaza
Governor Coolidge
Felix Vorenberg
Canada