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"
... of the Soviet Union[?] (+ 1980)
February 25 - Adelle Davis[?], nutritionist, writer (+ 1974)
February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (+ 1957)
March 1 - Glenn ...