Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1917 — London Coffee-House Founder Dead. [ARTICLE]

London Coffee-House Founder Dead.

hi the death of Sir Joseph Lyons there passes away the man who did more than anybody else to revolutionise the catering business of London. Before the time when he threw down the brush and easel In favor of a business career the "coffee-house** as now constituted was unknown In Landon. City workers had either to lunch at one of the numerous bars or pay the exorbitant prices charged at the hotels. To the thousands of women workers the establishment of the modern tea shop has come as a great boon, for before that time there was no accommodation for this daws of society, la Ms later days Sir Joseph spent a .good deal of his time at Brighton. and was often to be aeon on the front wearing the uniform of an honorary coioud of the Territorial fotce. Dub Etn