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* 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
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1879 and Utica
He borrowed $ 300 and opened a five-cent store in Utica, New York, on February 22, 1879.
Using the same sign from the Utica store, Frank opened his first successful " Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store " on July 18, 1879, in Lancaster.
Woolworth left Watertown and opened his first store in Utica, New York in 1879.
On June 21, 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first successful five cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after a failed attempt with a store he opened on February 22, 1879, in Utica, NY.
He practiced in Utica in 1877, and then moved to Oakland, California in 1879.
He was born in Utica, New York and studied at the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882.
1879 and New
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In 1879, amid talks surrounding the closure of the university due to its dire financial situation, a wealthy New York publisher with Nova Scotia roots, George Munro, who was also the brother-in-law of Dalhousie's Board of Governors member John Forrest, began to donate to the university.
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File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 009. jpg | Edgar Degas, Stage Rehearsal, 1878 – 1879, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City
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A Time Analysis of the Plots of Shakespeare ’ s Plays ( London: New Shakespeare Society, 1879 )
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A Time Analysis of the Plots of Shakespeare's Plays ( London: New Shakspere Society, 1879 )
File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 009. jpg | Stage Rehearsal, 1878 – 1879, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
1879 – 80, Bronze, partly tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair ribbon, on a wooden base, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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