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In 1978 the company that was to emerge as Shoe Carnival was established in Evansville, Indiana by founder David Russell, a single shoe store known as Shoe Biz. [1] The store was successful in its local market and by 1986 had expanded to four stores. [1] The Shoe Biz chain attracted the attention of a trio of shoe executives, Jerome "Jack ...
In 1960, freshly out of high school, Tucker opened his first retail store, with his wife Carolyn Clark Tucker, in Kannapolis, North Carolina. [2] The company now has 1,000 stores in 47 US states, with over $1 billion in annual sales. [6]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Forest Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Greencastle Township, Putnam County, Indiana. It was established in 1865, and is a 133-acre city cemetery for Greencastle, Indiana. Notable features include the Forest Hill Abbey (1931), four family crypts (c. 1880), the Soldier's Monument (1870), DAR Monument (1915), and the cemetery ...
Sep. 9—Shoe Sensation is stocking shelves with new shoes and getting ready to open their doors for a soft opening Friday, Sept. 15. The new store is 8,000 square feet of wall-to-wall shoes ...
Variety Obituaries is a 15-volume series with facsimile reprints of the full text of every obituary published by the entertainment trade magazine Variety from 1905 to 1994. The first eleven volumes were published in 1988 by Garland Publishing , which subsequently became part of Routledge .
Pearl Bryan (c. 1874 –1896) was a 22-year-old pregnant American woman from Greencastle, Indiana who was found decapitated in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, in 1896. [1] Her head was severed below the fifth vertebra.