‘Business Report’ Hall of Fame honors Homer Knost posthumously

    Homer Knost was only 15 when he first showed signs of the entrepreneur he would become, starting a cane fishing pole operation to raise money to buy a local gas station in southwest Missouri in 1941. …


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