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unusual facts about dry goods



Horace Brigham Claflin

In 1832 the firm opened a branch store in Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1833 Claflin and Daniels secured the sole control of this establishment and restricted their dealing to dry goods.

Peter J. K. Petersen

In 1846, Peter Petersen received his burghership in Christiania, and took over his father's dry goods store, including the building at Karl Johans gate 16.


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Abraham J. Williams

Within a few years Williams was on the move again, this time to Columbia, Missouri where he established one of the first dry goods stores in the town, also providing services as a boot and shoe maker.

Amos H. Jackson

He settled in Fremont, Ohio, in 1882 and engaged in the retail dry goods and shoe business and later engaged in manufactures.

Bloom Brothers Department Stores

The Old Reliable Conn and Bloom Dry Goods Store opened on April 24, 1897, at 84 South Main Street in downtown Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Bloom Brothers Department Stores were located at sites in Franklin and Fulton counties, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, from the company's founding in 1897 as the Old Reliable Conn and Bloom Dry Goods Store until the closing of the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, store in March 1944.

Charles A. Spring, Jr.

His father, Charles A. Spring, Sr., was a dry goods merchant at the time, and his grandfather was Reverend Samuel Spring.

D. Omer Seamon

Early jobs included trimming windows for a department store in Evansville, Indiana, and preparing posters for a dry goods store.

Ebenezer J. Penniman

Later, he moved to Orwell, Vermont, where he engaged in business as a dry-goods merchant.

Forstner

Benjamin Forstner (1834–1897), an American gunsmith, inventor and dry-goods merchant

Hesperidina

He was involved in the dry goods business in New Orleans before the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Horace Henry Baxter

In the mid-1830s Baxter returned to Vermont, after securing the financing to open his own dry goods store in Bellows Falls.

Lawrence Lawrason

In 1832, he moved to London and opened a general store and also sold dry goods wholesale, in partnership with George Jervis Goodhue.

Levi Strauss

Strauss opened his dry goods wholesale business as Levi Strauss & Co. and imported fine dry goods—clothing, bedding, combs, purses, handkerchiefs—from his brothers in New York.

Louisa Journeaux

Journeaux was transported from St. George's Bay back to St. John's on Bowring's vessel Curlew upon which she was given freedom of their dry goods and clothing store.

Midwest Buddhist Temple Ginza Holiday Festival

Several other exhibits and booths feature other Japanese items, such as Japanese dry goods and snacks, kimonos, jewelry, anime, origami folding, and an abundance of traditional Japanese cuisine, including their famous grilled Chicken Teriyaki dinner, Udon (Japanese cold noodles), sushi, Edamame, and kintoki (Japanese snow cone topped with sweet azuki beans).

The Bon-Ton

The Bon-Ton was started in 1898, when Max Grumbacher and his father, Samuel, opened S. Grumbacher & Son, a one-room millinery and dry goods store on Market Street in York, Pennsylvania.

Waddill Catchings

He was a director of major corporations in diverse fields, including leather, motion pictures (Warner Brothers), radio, television, recorded music (Muzak Holdings), tin cans, dry goods, rubber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles (Studebaker and Chrysler), typewriters, breakfast cereals, lumber, mail-order merchandising, music publishing, and electric power.

William Lafayette Strong

He was born in Loudonville, Ohio; was a dry-goods salesman in Wooster and then in Manchester, Ohio; in 1853 went to New York City, where he engaged in similar business, and in 1869 became the head of the firm of William L. Strong & Co.