Sears became a broadcasting pioneer when it launched radio station WLS 100 years ago. The call letters stood for “World’s Largest Store,” a moniker Sears earned from its massive ...

WLS’ founder, Sears, Roebuck and Co., was already doing that with its mail-order catalog. It provided access to consumer goods to households many, many miles from a department store. The call ...

Simpsons merged with the U.S. retailing giant Sears Roebuck in the 1950s to become a department store and catalogue concern known as Simpsons-Sears. Later the chain would become Sears Canada ...

I found my grandparents love letters while helping my grandmother move. I learned more about their time than through books.

Next to today’s chain grocery stores, you could call Martin’s a mom-and-pop store. Except that Barbara Martin only worked ...

They long suspected it was a Sears kit house—sold via catalogue from Sears, Roebuck and Co. and shipped to the buyer via railroad boxcars. Michelle’s neighbor, who lived in a Sears kit house ...

Golden agers find it particularly hard to give Insomnia the bum’s rush. The National Library of Medicine reports that about ...

He wrote for the Marx Brothers and influenced Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. But do Perelman's works speak to our era?

He sent off for a Sears Roebuck catalog so he could mail-order medicine. And he eventually found a place for them to live once they were married near a Piggly Wiggly grocer "so we won't have to tote ...

He sent off for a Sears Roebuck catalog so he could mail-order medicine. And he eventually found a place for them to live once they were married near a Piggly Wiggly grocer "so we won't have to tote ...