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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 20 May 1937, p. 30

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é Tite Hub's meiis shop in, the Orrington hotel ýbuilding led the parade, of important oo> *business establîsh.nents to :Evanston. Thi4 is: a vieu o!fthe Rz,;anston store': inteèrior. The Hub has ju.st finished. remodeling and enlarging ils women*s sho> ai Shcrmiýan avenue and Ckurch street, Evan-ston, to care for'.týapidly growing. Iisiincss. -A ziew of the interioir is show» here. Good WiIl Sale 18 GMChef Eont ofA nniversary As one of the major events of the Hub's Golden Jubilee celebration, a "Good Will Sale" will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, it is announced. custon dilU I MANAGER 1 Henry C. Lytton, 91-Y-ear-Old Head of Stores, Is Dynamo~ of New Ideas Pioneered in Evanston Field Eleven Years Ago Henry C.» Lytton, 91-year-oIcI dean of the active merchant leaders of the world, is back at his desk at the Hub store in the loop, after a four- month vacation at his winter home ing. baia ne:,: i won't throw a hundred over- coats off the roof as I did when I wanted Chicago to know I had open- ed this store.. And I won't paint. hubs on the street signs, either. Al 1 ýcan tell you youngsters right ftow ig-watch outfor Henry." SpaWug -for Associat.s ics warned me that I was too far f rom the business section of down- town Chicago. . . a situation harci to visualize today. I believed in 1887 that my location was good, and I believed i the Lytton Way of do- ing business. That these methods estalshed a smauer 'replica of the Hub in Evanston in the Ôrrington hotel. The new store was greeted by a popularity that caused north shore leaders to agrce that Mr. Lytton had mhet a long-felt need for a quality apparel store-inu the area. He was the first of the large Chi- Women 's Shop Is Important -Part of Hu bs Store The women's shop, located at the northeast corner of Church street and Sherman avenue, is an important part of the Hub organization ini Evanston. The shop, opened ini October, 1931, originally. handled only. women's ready-to-wear garments. Later a trude ÂJul EFOUNZZ1 people tuant. Hle t: an active ine-m- ber in man~y Evanston civic organ- igathon:, and kas a upide circle of frieedsand acquainýtances.' Had Modst Bewiuning 100ok them to the store to buy their ' "The first of the Hub stores es- crtEo ut.Penthepro tàblished 50 years, agýo boasled a Undeterred by his age, Mr. Lytton the Lytton W frontage of only 50 feet at State makes regular visits to his, Evans-, as long as and Jackson. My friends .and cnit- ton shop.see" e aur patrons that will be maintained e is a public to I

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