May Department Stores, Mary Livingstone[?] was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Sears & Roebuck[?], later Sears[?], its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker"
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John Hanning Speke, (1827-1864), discovered Lake Victoria
Henry Morton Stanley, (1841-1904), found back Livingstone; later explored Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyik ...