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1913

63-65 Westchester Square
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Shops on the eastern side of Westchester Square, ca. 1913.

At left is the James Butler grocery store. Butler, an Irish immigrant, founded a successful chain of grocery stores in the 1880s. Forgotten today, Butler’s chain was once the sixth-largest in the country, with over 1,100 locations.

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