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The first retail business owned by the Stroud family was a store in Pea Ridge, which was co-owned by Allen Bryant Stroud (1831-1914) and his son Harlan
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store at the corner of First and Walnut
Streets in Rogers. In 1887 he brought in his brother Alonzo Bryant Stroud (1868-1952) to serve as manager of his new business. In 1891 H.L. Stroud moved his business into a storefront on the north side of the 100 block of Walnut Street. Stroud's continued to
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Though by the time Stroud's closed in 1993 it was hardly considered progressive, in the early years of the business it had proved to be forward thinking, especially under the management of Alonzo Stroud. Among these innovations, Stroud's was the first retailer in northwest
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in the store, paid all bills on the day they arrived and marked all merchandise with price tags, eliminating the previous practice of
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prosper, and in 1899 H.L. built the brick building at 114-116 West Walnut Street, where Stroud's would remain for the next 94 years.
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