1872 Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalog, Drugs Department
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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This evening we're reading The Sears Robuck & Company Incorporated, Consumers Guide, number 104 published in 1872. It's the Sears catalog, published by a company that refers to itself as the cheapest supply house on earth with trade that reaches around the world. We aim to illustrate honestly and correctly every article. So far as possible, illustrations are engraved from photographs taken directly from the article. Our employees are instructed to treat every customer at a distance exactly as they would like to be treated were they in the customer's place.
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