Lewis Loeb left Kansas City in 1899 to take a job in Junction City, KS, at the Holzschuher Drug Store. A year later, he was ready to have his own store, so with Gordon Hollis, they bought the B. H. Ward Drug Store and changed the name to Loeb & Hollis. In 1901, he was accosted by two masked men while walking in the park. He knocked one of them to the ground and escaped the second. Having established his reputation as a man of action, in 1905, he was on the street as the town's fire wagon came racing towards him. He quickly realized that the driver was not holding the reins, and was heading for a crash. Loeb ran along side of the wagon and was able to grab the bit of one of the horses, and dragged his feet until they came to a stop. About the same time, he bought out his partner Hollis and changed the name to the Loeb Drug Store. Two years later, he takes on a different partner, Earl Sands, and it becomes the Loeb & Sands. The next year, 1908, they enter a float in the Corn Carnival Parade, as seen in the picture post card above. That is Loeb driving his Buick Roadster, which has been decked out with a wooden framework holding all the signs and pennants. Behind him is the smaller entry of a towed 6 foot cigar from the C. O. Williams' Cigar Store. Loeb loses his partner again in 1909, and ran the store by himself (back to the Loeb Drug Store) until he sells out to J. E. Brasfield in 1912, and leaves town. I'm sure Junction City was a little quieter for many without him.