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Obituaries Australia
Mr. Sidney Myer, governing director of the Myer Emporium, collapsed and died suddenly a few hundred yards from his house in Clendon Road, Toorak, shortly before 1O a.m. today. Death apparently was due to heart failure. The late Mr. Myer, who was 38 years of age, had complained at breakfast that he was not feeling wei, and said he would take a short walk before going into thc city. Four leading Melbourne men -old friends of his- found him lying on the footpath of Woorigoleen Road.
"Content with things achieved is the first sign of decay" was the maxim on which Sidney Myer based life, for although in the completion last year of the great building scheme in Bourke street premises, he saw the achievement of a life ambition, he had further plans in view for a policy of continual progress, which he discussed only yesterday with his architect.
Packer of Parcels
Born at Nilna, south of Warsaw, the late Mr.Myer, at the age of 19, landed in Australia with practically nothing and started his career packing parcels in Flinders Lane. Setting up in Be
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Simcha Myer (Sidney) Baevski (1878-1934), merchant and philanthropist, was born on 8 February 1878 at Krichev in the Russian province of Mogilev, within the Pale of Settlement, youngest of eleven children of Ezekiel Baevski, Hebrew scholar, and his wife Koona Dubrusha, née Shur.
His elder brother Elcon Baevski (1875-1938) was born on 4 December 1875 at Krichev, attended the Jewish Elementary School in Krichev, then a higher school, and later managed his mother's drapery business. In 1896 he migrated to Australia, finding employment in Melbourne in the clothing trade with a relation, Lazer Slutzkin. Simcha attended the same schools as his brother, distinguished himself as a student, and in turn managed his mother's store. He too migrated and in August 1899, almost penniless, joined Elcon for a time in Slutzkin's underclothing business in Flinders Lane, teaching himself English. Several months later, adopting the family name of Myer (the second name of their eldest brother Jacob), the brothers moved to Bendigo and opened a small drapery shop. Sid
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Sidney Myer
Sidney Myer (1878-1934), retail magnate and philanthropist, arrived in Melbourne in 1898 as a penniless Russian immigrant named Simca Baevski. He and his brother Elcon adopted the name Myer and worked briefly at a drapery store in Flinders Lane before moving to Bendigo, where they opened the first Myer store in 1900. The venture prospered, and they opened a second store in 1908. In 1911 Sidney Myer bought a drapery store in Bourke Street, Melbourne, along with a number of neighbouring properties. On this site he built a department store called the Myer Emporium, which introduced to Australia the bargain basement, the self-service cafeteria, motorised home deliveries, and other advanced selling techniques based on Myer's observations on frequent trips to the US and Europe. The business expanded to Adelaide and later across Australia. In 1920 he married Merlyn Baillieu, the daughter of an established Queenscliff family. Through the Depression Myer continued to expand and Sidney made generous contributions to cultural and charitable causes; for example, he gave $22,000 t
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