Excerpt from Tacoma, Its History and Its Builders, Vol. 2: A Half Century of Activity With a stock of dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes valued at about five thousand dollars, David and Ellis H. Gross and W. Rudee, in 1878, had established the business in a little frame build ing on Pacific Avenue, rented from Eben Pierce. Eight' months later the firm moved into larger quarters at Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue. Occupying the only brick building in town. Bioi'i'is Gross joined the firm a few months after it was ...
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Excerpt from Tacoma, Its History and Its Builders, Vol. 2: A Half Century of Activity With a stock of dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes valued at about five thousand dollars, David and Ellis H. Gross and W. Rudee, in 1878, had established the business in a little frame build ing on Pacific Avenue, rented from Eben Pierce. Eight' months later the firm moved into larger quarters at Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue. Occupying the only brick building in town. Bioi'i'is Gross joined the firm a few months after it was established and in 1881 Abe left the old home in Poland, and joined his brothers. The only brick was outgrown by 1883 and the brothers bought two lots just south of it and built a one-story frame, 30 bv 80 feet in size, which came near starting an investi gation, the conservative element failing to see how the brothers'j. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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