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In 1898, he found work in a dry goods store called Golden Rule, and proved his worth in a short time. The owners asked Penney to partner with them in opening a new store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, and J.C. Penney opened the store in 1902. He bought out his partners in 1907, and in 1913, changed the chain to the J.C. Penney Company. Just four short years later, there were 175 Penney’s in 22 states. • J.C. Penney lost nearly all his personal wealth in the 1929 stock market crash, but borrowed against his life insurance policies to make pay- www.wyomingroofing.com roll until he could recover the company. By 2175 Skyline Drive - Sheridan 1941, there were 1,600 stores in all 48 states.

Penney’s introduced their own credit card in 1959. At their peak in 1973, the company operated 2,053 stores. Today, that number is 1,107.

The original “mother storeâ€? in Kemmerer is still in operation, and has been declared a National Historic Landmark. • The J.C. Penney Company motto was, “Honor, Confidence, Service, and Cooperation.â€? turn the page for more!

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The most important part of diet is to avoid simple sugars. Processed grains are converted extremely rapidly to sugar in the body. The added fiber and protein of whole grains slows this process down somewhat; however, I still would recommend having your grains with some healthy fat and protein. Nuts, olive oil and healthy vegetable spreads go great with whole-grain rolls and slow down absorption. By having foods in combination, you can reduce diabetes risk.

Don’t forget about exercise, the other key to preventing diabetes. Any exercise is better than none. Walking is a great form of exercise that takes no special equipment and can be done anywhere. At 10,000 steps a day, which is not very hard to build up to, the risk of diabetes is significantly decreased. An inexpensive pedometer can keep track of your steps and may motivate you to reach your goal.

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There are some studies and a lot of experience with using these medications long term. They are mostly safe, better than placebo and certainly better than the risk of recurrent depression, which after three episodes is very high. Counseling (psychotherapy) is another effective treatment. Effective counseling may reduce the risk for recurrent depression, but I would not stop the medication without being carefully followed by your counselor and psychiatrist. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@ med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. (c) 2015 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

RETAILERS, PT. TWO (continued): • J.C. Penney built Anchorage, Alaska’s first public parking garage in 1968, following the destruction of their store in the 1964 earthquake there.

• Nordstrom’s started out as a small shoe store in Seattle, Washington, in 1901. John Nordstrom had emigrated to the United States from Sweden in 1887 at age 16, arriving with $5 in his pocket. Although he didn’t know a single word of English, he managed to work his way to Seattle. In 1897, he headed north to Alaska to search for gold. Two years later, Nordstrom returned to Seattle, $13,000 richer. He partnered up with a shoemaker he had met in the Klondike, and the pair opened Wallin & Nordstrom in 1901, with first day sales of $12.50. Within four years, annual sales had increased to $80,000. In 1923, they opened a second Seattle store. By 1929, both Wallin and Nordstrom had retired and sold their shares to Nordstrom’s sons.

• By 1960, Seattle’s downtown Nordstrom’s shoe store was the largest shoe store in America, and there were eight locations in Washington and Oregon. In 1963, the company branched out into the women’s clothing business. Today, the fourth generation of the Nordstrom family heads up the company. From its humble beginnings of one small shoe store, Nordstrom’s operates 289 stores in 38 U.S. states and one in Canada, with annual sales exceeding $12 billion.

• Kohl’s didn’t start out as a department store.

The first Kohl’s was a Wisconsin supermarket, founded by Maxwell Kohl in 1946. In 1962, his chain was the largest of its kind in the Milwaukee area, and Kohl branched out, opening his first department store in Brookfield, Wisconsin, in 1962. It is now America’s largest department store chain, (having surpassed J.C. Penney in 2012), operating stores in 49 states.

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RETAILERS, PT. TWO (continued): • Aaron Montgomery Ward launched the nation’s first mail order business with a catalog of 163 items in 1872, a full 16 years before the Sears catalog appeared. By 1904, Ward was mailing a 4-lb. (1.8-kg) catalog to three million customers. He started his business in the loft of a Chicago livery stable, with $1,600 he and two partners had saved.

• Sears represented serious competition, and overtook Ward’s sales in 1900 with $10 million in sales compared to Ward’s $8.7 million. Sales had dramatically slipped by the 1960s and 1970s, and in 1985, after 113 years, the catalog division was closed. Today the Montgomery Ward brand is owned by Swiss Colony, Inc. • A Montgomery Ward’s staff copywriter was responsible for the creation of Rudolph, the RedNosed Reindeer. Each year at Christmas, the chain gave away children’s coloring books to customers. In 1939, they wanted something new, an original Christmas storybook. Copywriter Robert May was asked to come up with a story, and “Rudolph” was the result. Two million copies were given to Ward’s customers that year. It wasn’t until 10 years later that May’s brother-in-law Johnny Marks set the story to music. In 1949, singing cowboy Gene Autry, made it the second most popular Christmas song in history, second only to “White Christmas.”

• Barney Pressman opened his first store in Manhattan with $500 he received from pawning his wife’s engagement ring. The Pressman family retained a small percentage of the luxury store Barney’s until 2004, when, $500 million in debt, they sold out to a Dubai-based company • It should be no surprise that Walmart is the #1 retailer in America. Oklahoma-born Sam Walton went to work at a Des Moines, Iowa J.C. Penney store as a management trainee at age 22, just three days after his college graduation. Earning $75 a month, Walton stayed about 18 months before his World War II military service. After the war, he borrowed $20,000 from his father-in-law and purchased a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas. By the early 1960s, Walton and his brother owned 15 Ben Franklin stores. In 1962, Walton opened his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas. Five years later, the family owned 24 stores, with $12.7 million in annual sales. Five years after that, there were 51 stores, with sales of $78 million. In 1980, there were 276 stores, and in 1989, Walmart became the nation’s #1 retailer. Today, the company employs 2.2 million people worldwide, ringing up more than 200 million customers each week in 11,000 stores in 27 countries.

• Sebastian Kresge was working as a traveling salesman, peddling to all 19 Woolworth’s stores in the late 1800s. He made the decision to open his own store and invested $8,000 (about $227,000 in today’s dollars) to open a five-and-dime in Memphis, Tennessee. By 1912, there were 85 stores, and by 1924, Kresge was worth about $375,000,000, which translates to nearly $5.2 billion today.

In 1962, Kresge opened his first K-Mart store in Garden City, Michigan, a store still in operation today. In 2005, the K-Mart Corporation purchased Sears for $11 billion.

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For Advertising Call (307) 655-5095 F.W. WOOLWORTH Frank Winfield Woolworth had a brand-new idea back in 1878, the “five-and-dime” store. Here’s the history of his endeavors that made “Wooworth’s” a household name.

• The Woolworth family were farmers in upstate New York, but farming wasn’t Frank’s career choice.

After finishing school, he found work at the local dry goods store, where he came up with a few ideas for a store of his own.

• In 1878, when Frank was 26, he borrowed $300 from his boss to open Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store in Utica, New York. Within months, the store had failed. Refusing to give up, Woolworth tried Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for another store, using the same sign he’d used in Utica. He expanded his inventory to include items up to 10 cents, such as gravy strainers, scoops, purses, biscuit cutters, soap writing books, pie plates, handkerchiefs, and hundreds of other novelties. In 1880, Woolworth’s added manufactured Christmas tree ornaments with resounding success.

• Woolworth introduced a novel idea of displaying his merchandise, different from other stores of the period. While other retailers kept their goods behind a counter, requiring customers to present the clerk with a list of desired items, Woolworth used selfservice display cases with all prices clearly marked to avoid haggling with customers.

• Within just a few years Woolworth was a millionaire. By 1909, he had expanded to England. In 1912, there were close to 600 stores, and the company’s new corporate headquarters in New York City was under construction. In 1913, the Woolworth Building opened its doors, a 60-store skyscraper that was the tallest building in the world at 792 feet (241 m), an honor it held until 1930. It was built at a cost of $13.5 million, paid for by Woolworth in cash out of his private funds.

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How to Brush Your Dog’s Teeth --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: How do you brush a dog’s teeth? And how often should I do it? -- Abby in Framingham, Mass.

DEAR ABBY: Brushing your dog’s teeth is important to keep them healthy throughout their life. But it can be a little different from the way you brush your teeth, and dogs don’t always like having it done. Here are some tips on brushing: * Try to brush your dog’s teeth at least once a week, more if possible (especially for smaller dogs and breeds like Pugs). * Use a brush and toothpaste made especially for dogs. Minty-fresh human toothpaste is pretty nasty to dogs, and could upset their stomach. A popular type of brush fits over your finger so that you can access the dog’s teeth more easily. * Start slowly: Get your dog used to having you touch its muzzle and mouth, and lifting up its lip. Give it a flavored treat like the toothpaste you’ll be using: peanut butter or beef broth, for example. Or, give it a dab of the toothpaste as a treat. * Start with one section at a time. Put a dab of paste on the brush, gently lift your dog’s lip, and brush downward from the gumline. * If your dog struggles, pause and hold its muzzle lightly until it calms down. Then try again. If it really raises a fuss, stop and try again tomorrow. * Don’t reprimand it for misbehaving. This is really weird stuff for a dog. Use a soothing voice and give it lots of praise during and afterward.

More details can be found at the ASPCA website: www.aspca.org/pet-care/virtual-pet-behaviorist/dogbehavior/brushing-your-dogs-teeth Send your questions or tips to ask@pawscorner.com. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

NOTEWORTHY INVENTORS: JOSEPH BOMBARDIER We owe the invention of the snowmobile to Canadian inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier. But that was just a small part of this man’s contributions. Here are the facts on the inventor and businessman.

• Quebec-born Joseph had an affinity for mechanics from a young age. At 13, he fashioned a mechanical toy locomotive driven by a clock mechanism, and a steam engine created out of old sewing machine parts followed shortly afterward. It was the family’s hope that Joseph would join the priesthood, and in 1921, the 14-year-old was sent to seminary.

• When Joseph was 15, his father gave him an irreparable Model T Ford motor, which the boy soon transformed into the power behind an unusual sled, his first snow machine.

• Not suited to religious studies, at 17, Joseph began an apprenticeship at a Montreal garage and enrolled in night classes in mechanics and engineering.

By 19, he had his own garage, and it seemed he could fix anything.

• In the winter of 1934, a days-long blizzard prevented Bombardier from getting his two-year-old son to the hospital, and the boy died from a ruptured appendix. Joseph stepped up his efforts to invent a vehicle that could move over the snow. The result was a snowmobile that was steered by front skis and could carry seven people in its heated cabin. Within two years, he had built and sold 12 of his B7’s (“B” for bombardier, “7” for the number of passengers) to doctors, veterinarians, innkeepers, funeral directors, and schools.

• With the success of the B7, Bombardier expanded into military vehicles and he became a major supplier for the World War II effort. After the war, he pushed ahead to improve his inventions, producing a 12-passenger snowmobile, which was an immediate winner with police departments, the timber industry, and mining companies. An 18-passenger model quickly followed, which was used by schools in the snowy climate of Quebec and Ontario.

• Bombardier was soon designing vehicles to undertake different terrains, such as swamps, bogs, and mud. Some had tracks for traction, while others had an interchangeable system of wheels and skis. In 1953, he introduced the all-terrain Muskeg tractor, able to haul skiers up a mountain as well as clear roads. .

• Perhaps his best-known triumph came along in 1953. Using a lighter engine, Bombardier created the Ski-Doo snowmobile, a $900 machine for outdoor recreation lovers. Originally slated to be called the Ski-Dog, intended to replace the dogsled, it became the Ski-Doo when a painter misread the name and painted Ski-Doo on the prototype. Mass production of the unit began in 1959, and was immediately embraced not only by recreationists, but hunters, prospectors, surveyors, missionaries, and trappers as well. Bombardier’s company was enjoying annual sales of $3.5 million by the end of the 1950s.

• Along with his genius mechanical abilities, Joseph was devoted to community service and had a great love of music, singing in the church choir and accompanying his children on the piano. In the midst of an exceptional career, he died at age 56. Following his death, the family-owned business expanded into locomotives and aircraft, and today Learjet is one of their subsidiaries.

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F.W. WOOLWORTH (continued): • In 1917, the Woolworth family moved into Winfield Hall, a newly-constructed Italian Renaissance 56-room mansion on 16 acres on Long Island. With walls and pillars of marble, the home cost $90 million in 1917, with its entryway’s grand staircase alone costing $2 million.

• In 1919, when there were 1,000 stores, tragedy struck. Frank Woolworth, who had had a lifelong fear of dentists, ignored symptoms of infection, and died from septic poisoning as a result of an abscessed tooth. The company was handed over to his brother Charles, and within 10 years, another 1,250 stores were added. During the mid-1920s, a store was opened every 17 days.

• The five-and-dime concept began to disappear in 1932 when a line of 20-cent merchandise was added. In 1935, the company discontinued its 20-cent limit altogether.

• Lunch counters were incorporated into many stores, and throughout the 1940s, Woolworth’s was America’s largest restaurant chain. The lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. made history in 1960, when four black students sat down at the segregated counter and were refused service, setting off a series of civil rights’ sit-ins and boycotts.

• In the late ‘70s, the company was the world’s largest department store chain.

Even as the company acquired other stores chains, its own variety store sales were dwindling. In 1997, the last of the stores closed, and the company was renamed the Venator Group. It now focuses on its most successful retailer, Foot Locker, Inc.