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Chapter Three

Success in Chicago

ALBERT LASKER arrived in Chicago on May 30, 1898, with $75 in his pocket—the money his father had given him to launch his new life.¹

May 30 was Decoration Day (now called Memorial Day), and to a young man from a striving but still modest Southwestern city, the boisterous streets of Chicago—lined by soaring buildings festooned at street level with flags and bunting—were an astonishing and confounding spectacle. As he elbowed his way down Wabash Avenue to the offices of Lord & Thomas, Lasker wondered if the circus ...

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