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"
... attack on Port Arthur (Lushun)[?] starts Russo-Japanese War
February 23 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
March 3 - ...