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Show Charles Broadway Roubs, the blind . millionaire meirhan' and philanihroyist who died last week in New York, started in business as a clerk in n country store in Maryland. Later he "went into business for himself at Wi.ncheser, Va., and astonished the Quaker population of that town by ' advertising ad-vertising that he would sell "everything calculated to make a man fashionable, a woman ir rcstsable and a family cnifdrf-aole.'1 cnifdrf-aole.'1 When he was putting up his big store on Broad way, New York, this m'gn hung on the fiont. "He who builds, owns, and will occupy this marvel of brick, iron and giauit, thirteen years ago, walked the streets penniless and hungry; winch shows tlr.t a .mrfn facing fate may be a capitaitbt even wilhoul the Almighty Dollar, if he will." |