sentences:  When his father purchased the former Alexander Turney Stewart business in New York in 1896, he helped revolutionize the department store with top quality items and is credited in particular with fueling an American demand for French luxury goods.In 1911 he bought the "Philadelphia Evening Telegraph," along with 3rd cousin Samuel Martin Broadbent, who was also an alumnus of Princeton University.Wanamaker was content to live in his father's shadow and did not actively seek the limelight except for some official, largely ceremonial positions he held in the City of New York toward the end of his life.