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"
... Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
July 22 - Wilson Barrett, actor
August 22 - Kate Chopin, author
August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
August ...