Few people and especially businessmen are so well known by their nickname that not even their friends remember their correct initials, but such proved to be case some time ago when Leland A. Halstead of the White-Halstead Shoe Company of this city was consigned a box of fruit by a brother of his in Florida. The fruit lay in the express office and rotted while the express officials sought for L. A. Halstead, and the post office people tried to find the man to deliver the notice to.
Leland A. Halstead is better known to his friends as Bingham. As he grows older, it may become “Grigham.” But at the present time he is a partner of a growing shoe store, owned by himself and M. J. White. Messrs. White and Halstead have built up what appears to be a remarkably successful exclusive shoe business in a little stand on the corner of McMorrine Street and Colonial Avenue, carrying popular lines of high class shoes for the whole family. And they only opened their doors to the public for the first time in March 1925, just about a year and a half ago. Mr. White was formerly head of Mitchell’s shoe department however and knows the business from the ground up.
From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Sept. 10, 1926
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