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 />  />  />  />  />  /> Countless North Carolina Jewish Peddlers bought their merchandise from the pages of this catalogue. The Bargain House, six stories high, sold everything from baseball gloves to corsets and shipped its catalog to 160,000 retailers in 1920. Owner Jacob Epstein, once a peddler himself, sent Yiddish, speaking agents to Baltimore’s docks to greet immigrants. Epstein gave the new arrivals credit and pointed them to promising places to peddle. He ran coastal steamships and gave free train tickets to bring customers to Baltimore on semi,annual buying trips. Giving Back Jacob Epstein gave many small-town storekeepers their start. As Ben D’Lugin of Wilmington tells the story, in 1904 his father and uncle, twenty- and sixteen-year-old immigrants from Lithuania, walked into the Baltimore Bargain House seeking credit to buy merchandise. They had saved a few hundred dollars peddling and now wanted to start a clothing store. “Go to Wilmington,” Epstein told them, “and I’ll ship the merchandise to you. You pay me back a little bit every week, whatever you can afford, and I’ll sell you more.” The D’Lugin clothing store was a success for generations. When Jacob D’Lugin married Eva Kaminsky in 1915, Epstein sent a gift of silverware. |
 
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