A. A. Kluttz Store

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1. December 10, 1910 A. A. Kluttz advertises his University Bookstore to students in the Tar Heel The student paper's list of regular Chapel Hill advertisers included A. A. Kluttz, whose University Bookstore advertised shoes, hats, underwear, pictures and souvenirs. A dentist, Dr. William Lynch, advertised an office in the Kluttz Building. The Tar Heel, December 10, 1910, p. 3
2. 1916 Adam Kluttz sells his Franklin Street store to the Solomon Brothers, who keep his name on it After a heart attack, merchant Adam Alexander Kluttz sold his original store to the Solomon Brothers of New York on the condition that it go on carrying his name. B. Y. C. Buice became manager. People: Adam Alexander Kluttz Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 207
3. August 10, 1925 The store bearing A. A. Kluttz's name closes The A. A. Kluttz Company's store shut in August 1925. Its proprietor, G. Y. C. Buice, posted a "Going out of Business" notice on Monday, August 10; a temporary receiver was named on August 18 and made permanent on September 4, and the stock went in a receiver's sale that September. Buice blamed too many stores for the town's size, chain stores, and roads that took shoppers to the cities, and the Weekly noted the trouble of collecting from customers who bought on credit. A. A. Kluttz, who had run a store there before, was by then only the landlord. Stetson D, a men's clothier, later took the space. People: Adam Alexander Kluttz, Luther James Phipps Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 233 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1925, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1925, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1925, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1925, p. 3

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