January 3, 2025
Tag: Albert Best
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Best and Company – the story of an American Department Store
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Need a new dress for a special occasion? Mail-order one from Best and Company. Yes, it was that easy to shop when you were a customer of Albert Best’s department store. His advertising postcards alerted his clientele to the “Smart new additions to the famous American Golfer line of ladies dresses that fit beautifully into…
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December 5, 2021 2 Comments
The concept of temperance may be defined as life without alcohol or abstinence from alcoholic drink. The first vestiges of “temperance” appeared in the early 19th century when the average American was drinking seven gallons of alcohol each year.
Temperance enthusiasts said that drinking led to violence. They were right, but temperance as a social experiment failed. Miserably!