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File contains one business letterhead or flyer for The Dewey Liquor Company, with a handwritten note on the reverse side. The flyer is on pink paper and advertises "Dewey Whiskey", "Most Complete Stock in the West", among other information.

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File contains two (2) newspaper clippings of Emmett Heitler's obituary, printed in the Intermountain Jewish News. Emmett Heitler (1909-2004) was a Jewish businessman and philanthropist in the Denver area.

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Hyman Z. Salomon was born in 1832 in Posen, Prussia. He moved to what was then the city of Auraria, now Denver, in 1859 and is claimed to be the first Jewish settler in Colorado. He married Cecilia Joel and the couple had two daughters. Hyman originally set up as a mercantile man but he was also involved with the Capitol Hydraulic Company, the Platte River Ditch Company, and several other businesses in Denver along with his brother, Fred Z. Salomon. Hyman passed away on November 21, 1897.

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Jesse Kortz was owner of twelve (12) Kortz and Lee jewelry stores across Colorado, owner of some banks, and fundraiser for General Rose Hospital, Beth Israel hospital and home for the aged, and a number of other organizations. He was a trustee of General Rose Hospital.

Scope and Contents Folder contains half-page of genealogy information about Mendel Levy and Koona Hindel Levy. Mendel immigrated from Lithuania and married Koona Hindel Levy, sister of Rebbitzin Hillkowitz. The Levy family moved to Denver from Cincinnati around the turn of the century. They had four (4) children; Eli, Etta, Martha, and Julius. None married. Julius died at about 12 years old. Occupations: Eli - jewelry salesman; Etta - stenographer; Martha - librarian. The Levy parents and Etta,...

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Louis Charsky talks about working in chemicals and drugs which he'd deliver in a horse drawn buggy, growing up Orthodox and going to BMH, and liquor business.

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Sam Rosenberg was a founder of the West Colfax Loan Corporation, and he and Sarah ran Rosenberg's Mercantile and Deli, located on West Colfax Ave. and Hooker Street (2731 W. Colfax and later 3200 W. Colfax). They were active in Zera Israel Synagogue. Sam was also one of the founders of the Chevra Kadishim Burial Society. .Earlier, as a soldier in the Russo-Japanese war, Sam was taken prisoner and sent to Manchuria. Sam died in 1943; Sarah died in 1952.