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"
... April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (+ 1983)
April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (+ 1967)
May 6 - Harry Martinson, swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in ...