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FROM THE ARCHIVEJun 30, 1925·Washington, District of Columbia

FASTEST GROWING DEPARTMENT STORE

Scanned from Evening Star, Jun 30, 1925
FASTEST GROWING DEPARTMENT STORE
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26 m _ Any Child Can Answer. This i What is the fastest growing department store in Washington. What local department store features the greatest number of nationallyknown and nationallyadvertised brands of apparel and merchandise. What local department store is the exclusive agent for Society Brand Clothes Hanan Shoes for Men and Women Dobbs Hats Printzess Apparel and Gulbransen Registering Pianos m.

What local department store does one of the largest mens clothing businesses in Washington iV v v. What local department store does one of the largest furniture and home furnishing businesses in Washington aM What local department store buys in conjunction with its own other five stores in Baltimore and. New York and by reason of this tremendous buying power is able to offer values that other stores buying by themselves find difficult to equal. What local department store is now building the largest single addition ever made to a retail mercantile establishment in Wash ington.

I X What local department store is now building an addition that will i 5 give it 160000 square feet of additional selling space more than X doubling its present area. What local department store now giving employment to 600 persons will.

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