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History. Former logo. In 1890, John S. Dillon opened a general store in Sterling, Kansas, and learned that allowing customers to charge then pay later and delivering groceries to their homes was a financial and manpower strain on his business. In 1913, he opened his "J.S. Dillon Cash Store" in Hutchinson, Kansas employed a new marketing concept ...
Although the company's founder, John S. Dillon, died in 1957, he had lived long enough to see the chain that bore his name grow into a multimillion-dollar venture. But only his sons and grandsons would watch the rampant expansion that followed.
Jul 2, 2024 · Our friend, colleague and former FWA National Executive Committee member John Dillon has passed away. His great friend Paul McCarthy has written this heartfelt tribute. I have never met a journalist who loved the life of a sports reporter more than John Dillon.
May 14, 2021 · After his initial venture in selling groceries at his general store in Sterling in the early 1900s, John S. Dillon was considered a visionary when he opened the area’s first Cash Food Market in...
Clyde Dillon was born on January 25th, 1896 in Alden, Kansas. He was the son of John S. Dillon, the original founder of J. S. Dillon and Sons grocery store which later turned into the Dillon’s grocery store chain with stores throughout Kansas.
Jun 26, 2017 · Remembering John Dillon. KAIROS is shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our dear friend and colleague John Dillon. John served the Canadian churches in ecumenical social justice for 44 years.
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John Dillon was a leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (Irish Nationalist Party) in the struggle to secure Home Rule by parliamentary means. Through the 1880s he was perhaps the most important ally of the greatest 19th-century Irish nationalist, Charles Stewart Parnell, but, after Parnell’s.
