A few weeks ago, while taking two of my now-teenage granddaughters shopping for outfits for a sports banquet, I became nostalgic. As we were walking through Penney’s, I tried to explain to them the ...

Issued with slight variations for several geographical divisions with name of city for respective sections (i.e. Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Greensboro). Catalog for 1892 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sears, once a retail giant, has been described as the 19th-century Amazon.com for the way it revolutionized how Americans bought ...

Of the 1,068 pages in the new Sears, Roebuck catalogue, only four advertise books. But Sears, Roebuck is a big factor in one branch of the book business. Since 1920 it has owned a controlling interest ...