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Founder Ernst J. Lehmann named the store "The Fair", saying "the store was like a fair, because it offered many different things for sale at a cheap price." Lehmann bought and sold goods on a cash-only basis; he offered odd prices (i. e., prices not in multiples of five cents) to save customers a few
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purchased the State Street flagship store, as well as the Oak Park, Evergreen Plaza, and Old
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The Fair promoted itself as a discount department store in the early 1900s. In 1915, a booklet published by the store stated it "always has been and undoubtedly always will be, the store of the people, the down-town shopping center for the Savers, the market place for the
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World War II. Initially, these stores retained The Fair nameplate, and one more The Fair store would open, at
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