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Article: Halloween weekend gives consumers 3 nights to howl; retailers rejoice.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 29, 2004
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By Donald Bradley, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 29--Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say, When all souls come back from the far away -- The dead, forgotten this many a day!
And with those joyous words, it's time again for Halloween.
Canadian poet Virna Sheard penned the ghoulish passage about a century ago. From there, we have gotten to where Halloween, the one day it's OK for kids to take candy from stranger, has become a huge consumer holiday.
Especially this Hallo-weekend, when Oct. 31 falls on a Sunday.
That means two extra nights of festivities leading up to the big ...