Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However, some versions of those catalogs — possibly ...

Sears and Roebuck knew how to reach customers in the far corners of the country -- decades before the Internet. By the turn of the 20 th century, Sears had taken advantage of the nationwide rail ...

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