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by Kathy Wolfe Tidbits continues its examination of the history of some famous retailers.

• Missouri native James Cash Penney moved to the drier climate of Colorado on his doctor’s advice, as he was susceptible to tuberculosis. 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 payroll until he could recover the company. By 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 store” in Kemmerer is still in operation, and has been declared a National Historic Landmark.

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• The J.C. Penney Company motto was, “Honor, Confidence, Service, and Cooperation.”

• 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.

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.

• Kohl’s didn’t start out as a department store. The first Kohl’s was a Wisconsin supermarket, founded

• Aaron Montgomery Ward launched the nation’s first mail order business with a catalog of 163 items in 1872,

Golden Rule Store a forerunner of J.C. Penney of nowadays in Cumberland, Wyoming, circa 1913 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 Red-Nosed 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

• 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-inlaw 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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• 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.

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 twoyear-old son to the hospital, and the boy died

• 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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are several factors to consider when purchasing older board games. Make certain the game is complete and in good condition. Games that were issued to promote hit TV series are always popular with collectors. Consider "The Beverly Hillbillies," "The Man from UNCLE," "Lost in Space" and "The Waltons," all retailing in the $25-$50 range.

BOARD GAMES Q: Although I don't consider myself a collector, I buy occasional board games and puzzles when I find good ones at flea markets or garage sales. I currently have almost 50, including "Pollyanna," "Bomb the Navy," "Car 54," "Get Smart" and a 1930s edition of "Monopoly." How can I find out if any of my games are worth keeping? — Steve, Dayton, Ohio A: Games create a feeling of nostalgia with many collectors, which has, of course, led to an increase in values. For example, your "Car 54" game, issued in 1951, currently is worth about $300, up at least tenfold from just a decade ago. There

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• 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.

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 “Woolworth'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 self-service 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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OH, SWEET PEA

If there is a poster vegetable for spring, one that embodies the fresh avors we are so ready for after a season of roots and leafy greens, it would be the garden pea.

This crop loves the still-cool temperatures of the ďŹ rst weeks of the new season, and its plants produce prolific white or lavender blooms that are lovely to look at ... if you are lucky enough to grow them. Those owers give way to showy, brightgreen bulging pods.

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This is the part of the plant we eat, discarding the pods, which tend to be tough.

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as the sugars in all varieties begin turning to starch after harvesting.

Although they come from the same family, the nutritional values of peas vary.

Green garden peas contain high amounts of vitamin A, as well as good amounts of antioxidants. However, because the pod of the snow pea and sugar snap pea are eaten, they provide the nutritional beneďŹ ts of high ďŹ ber and vitamin C that garden peas do not.

This recipe for Fresh Pea and Lettuce Salad provides a delicious showcase for various varieties of peas. It's perfect as a stand-alone salad or as a side dish with chicken or ďŹ sh.

Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children's author, culinary historian and author of seven cookbooks.

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Add liquid smoke for a more “traditionalâ€? taste. • 2 cups dry green split peas • salt, to taste • 1 teaspoon liquid smoke (optional) • 1/3 cup dry pearl barley • 1 tablespoon mirin (sweet rice wine) or any white cooking wine (or water) • 2 teaspoons tamari or Bragg\'s Liquid Aminos • 3 large carrots, chopped • 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley (optional) • 2 cups chopped celery with leaves • 3 - 4 large whole garlic cloves • 1 large onion, chopped • 1 bay leaf • 8 cups water black pepper, to taste Place peas, water, and bay leaf into a large pot and bring to a boil. Loosely cover the pot, reduce heat, and simmer for 45 minutes until peas are soft and mushy.

Combine onion, garlic, celery, parsley (if using), carrots, tamari, and wine in another pot and cook on medium-low heat, covered, until vegetables are soft.

Remove bay leaf from peas and place peas in a blender and blend until smooth and return to the pot.

Place vegetables in the blender or food processor with 1 cup water and pulse to chop into small pieces. Add vegetables and barley to the peas. Bring the mixture to a

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Per serving (1/8 of recipe): Source: The Cancer Project cooking instructor, Tracy Childs

Simply Wonderful Vegetable Stew Makes 6 to 8 servings This stew has relatively few ingredients, is quick to prepare, and tastes wonderful.

Who could ask for more?

Serve it with a fresh green salad and bread. • 1/2 cup water • 2 medium onions, chopped • 1 28-ounce can chopped tomatoes, undrained • 2 garlic cloves, minced • 1 large green bell pepper, seeded and diced • 6 medium red potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch cubes • 1 teaspoon dried basil • 1 teaspoon dried oregano • 1 teaspoon mixed Italian seasonings • 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional) • 1 - 2 cup fresh or frozen green peas Heat water in a large pot. Add onions and cook over medium-high heat, stirring frequently until onions are soft.

Add tomatoes and their liquid, garlic, bell pepper, potatoes, basil, oregano, and Italian seasonings and bring to a simmer.

Cover and cook 20 to 25 min-

utes, or until potatoes are just tender. Add salt to taste. The amount you add will depend on the tomatoes you use.

Some commercially canned tomatoes are very salty; if you use these, you may not need

to add any additional salt. Stir in peas and continue cooking until heated through.

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HOLLYWOOD — Bradley Cooper is in talks to direct "A Star is Born," which starred Janet Gaynor (1937), Judy Garland (1954) and Barbra Streisand (1976) in three earlier versions. Clint Eastwood was to direct this one, but he got impatient waiting for Beyonce and directed "Jersey Boys" instead. "Jersey Boys" cost $40 million to make and earned a disappointing $67.3 million ... maybe he should have waited for Beyonce!

Many are puzzled why Cooper is switching to directing when he's got a hot acting career.

There's no word if he would act in it as well, or if Beyonce will star as the ambitious singer who rides on the back of a fading star to get to stardom herself. Next up for Bradley is "Aloha," with Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray and John Krasinski, out May 29. *** The first Oscar buzz of the year is for Sally Field, whose film "Hello, My Name Is Doris" won the audience award at the recent SXSW film fest in Austin, Texas. The comedy-drama features Sally as an older woman in her 60s, having a romance with a much younger co-worker played by "New Girl" star Max Greenfield. It also stars Beth Behrs of "2 Broke Girls," Tyne Daly and Peter Gallagher. Formerly "Gidget" (1965-66) and "The Flying Nun" (1967-70), Field won an Emmy in 1977 for "Sybil," in 2001 for a guest shot on "ER" and in 2007 for "Brothers and Sisters," and Oscars in 1980 for "Norma Rae" and in 1985 for "Places in the Heart."

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*** Leonardo DiCaprio, who was paid $25 million for "The Wolf of Wall Street," is a member of the $20 million club of actors in that price range. Joining him are Robert Downey, Jr., Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jole, Denzel Washington and Matt Damon, followed by the $15 million club with Bradley Cooper, Ben Affleck, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson and Melissa McCarthy.

"50 Shades of Grey" cost $40 million to make and raked in $558.5 million in theaters. The DVD will be released May 8, and you can expect that to break records too. *** One of the reasons Sean Penn and Charlize Theron are inseparable is because Penn is directing Theron in "The Last Face" with Javier Bardem and Jean Reno. They have his and her movies coming out: Penn has "Hot Pursuit" with Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara, set for May 8; the following week will bring Theron in the new "Mad Max" film with Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult and Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough. Sean better watch his back ... we hear Charlize can be a "Monster" if she puts her mind to it, and she won an Oscar to prove it! (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

Q: I recently rewatched "Napoleon Dynamite," and it made me wonder what Haylie Duff has been up to lately. Can you fill me in? — Valerie D., via email A: The soon-to-be new mom's Cooking Channel show, "Real Girl's Kitchen," starts its second season on Saturday, April 25, at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. I spoke with the multitalented actress/ singer/hostess/cook recently, and she can't wait for viewers to join in the fun of her series' new season. For those unfamiliar with the show, here's how Haylie describes it: "It really just is about a real girl in the kitchen — it's me, learning how to cook, and sharing recipes that I love, and cooking for my family and my friends. The format is very loose, and every episode is different. We get out of the kitchen a lot. A fun way to share your love of food with someone is to get out there in the field, so to speak, and going to farms and farmers' markets. We describe our style of food as 'healthy decadence.' It's a balance of healthy food and indulgent things as well."

Haylie Duff

A: Craig is all set to reprise his role of Coach Hayden Fox on the NBC revival of "Coach." NBC gave the show a 13-episode straight-to-series order, with Craig returning as Coach Fox, where the now-retired football coach is called back to become the assistant coach to his own grown son, who is now the new head coach at an Ivy League school in Pennsylvania that is starting up a new team. There is no word yet on its premiere date or other casting info, but Barry Kemp — who created the original ABC series — is on board to write and executive-produce the reboot. ***

What can we expect for season two? "I had a surprise birthday for my mom," Haylie reveals. "I love to mess with my mom. And she hates to be on the show, but she's so funny, I force her. She's a riot. Everybody loves Mama Duff. There are a lot of my friends on the show and my family. We do a great Italian episode. My fiance is Italian, and he's always giving me a hard time, saying Texas girls can't make Italian food. So I set out to prove him wrong. It's just real loose and fun."

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A: The Liev Schreiber-starring drama returns to Showtime for its 12-episode third season July 12 at 9 p.m. ET/ PT. This season's guest stars include Ian McShane, Katie Holmes and Elliott Gould. "Masters of Sex" returns for its third season as well, which also happens to be 12 episodes, immediately following "Ray Donovan."

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appreciate any advice you could give me. — D.R.

HELP FOR SPINAL STENOSIS PAIN DEAR DR. ROACH: I enjoyed your informative article on spinal stenosis. I also have acute and chronic pain in my lower back. I am 75 years of age and have had vertebroplasty on seven vertebrae.

I realize that my back will not be normal again. I am currently working with a doctor who uses osteopathic manipulation. He is suggesting prolotherapy in conjunction with the manipulation. I have tried the prolotherapy previously

without any relief of pain.

What is your assessment of prolotherapy therapy, or would you advise me to go to a pain clinic? The pain level in the lower back usually is about 6 or higher on pain scale of 1 to 10.

I walk 3 miles every day in a grocery store using a small grocery cart. I am trying other exercises, even working on a balance ball.

But it just does not seem to improve. I would greatly

ANSWER: Prolotherapy is the injection of an irritant solution into a space, designed to stimulate healing and reduce pain. However, if it hasn't worked for you in the past, it is unlikely to work for you again. On the other hand, some studies have shown prolotherapy to be modestly effective when combined with spinal manipulation.

A pain clinic has several modalities available, including steroid injections and pain medications.

Unfortunately, steroid injections have been shown to be ineffective in back pain that is due to spinal stenosis lasting beyond six weeks.

It sounds like you are doing what you can with exercise. I think continuing with the manipulation and prolotherapy as a trial of six weeks or so is reasonable, and at that point you can continue if

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and even organ failure.

However, the amount of quinine in tonic water is quite small, compared with quinine tablets. One common brand has 17mg in a liter, so your husband is getting about 25mg. The quinine tablets formerly prescribed for leg cramps were 200mg. Toxic effects are unlikely at the dose in quinine water. Some people are allergic to quinine, in which case even the small dose in tonic water could potentially cause problems.

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ANSWER: Even the best surgery can leave some prostate tissue in place. It's also possible that some tumor cells spread before surgery. Any residual cancer can be stimulated, in theory, by taking testosterone. Fortunately, the available evidence so far suggests that this risk may be much lower than feared.

Careful follow-up remains essential.

DEAR DR. ROACH: You had an article from a man that said he had his prostate removed and was wondering about taking testosterone.

You said he would likely have an increased risk of prostate cancer recurrence.

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Your husband can keep on as he's been doing if he finds that it helps.

rate with chefs to improve food taste and quality, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. For seven months, researchers followed trends in food choices of students in 14 elementary and middle schools among three different intervention groups that involved either strategic placement of foods to promote healthful choices (for example, placing fruits and vegetables before the entree), involvement of a professional chef in the food preparation process, or a combination of both. All interventions were compared to each other and a group that received no intervention. Results showed that chefs’ improvements in food taste and quality led to a long-term increase in fruit and vegetable selection and consumption, while strategic placement of food resulted in only short-term increase.

While after three months, there was not a noticeable increase in fruit and vegetable consumption by the chef group, by seven months the improvement was significant. A focus on school food quality and palatability with repeated exposure is an effective method to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in the school setting.

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DOG MIGHT NOT NEED CATARACT SURGERY —-DEAR PAW'S CORNER: My 13-year-old miniature poodle, "Dany," has the beginnings of cataracts. I don't want to put her through surgery. Are there drops or vitamins I can use instead? — Mick, via email DEAR MICK: You'll need to consult Dany's veterinarian.

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Look on the pull cords of your window blinds for cord stops. These are small round plastic discs threaded through the cords.

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