January 15, 2025
Tag: Orville Ewing Postcards
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Orville Ewing and Friends*
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Stories telling of the man who ashcans his job, his family, and all others, except for a wagon and a mule to pull it, hold an allure for those with severe cases of wanderlust. Here are tales of three such men. Lots of adventure; very little guilt.
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February 16, 2022 3 Comments
By age 17, John Lewis Childs had a well-planned and nearly perfected career path doing business as no one had done before. He sold seeds through a catalog. It made him one of America’s richest men. The post office in his small Long Island community grew so fast due to the volume of mail he received, they compared it to Boston and Baltimore.