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Much has been made about Chicago’s June 13 trade that sent former first-round Draft pick Andrew Vaughn to the Brewers in ...
Aug. 25—The first Montgomery Ward location in Spokane opened in 1927 in the Reliance Building at Second Avenue and Lincoln Street. The expansion of the longtime mail order retailer into physical ...
A storied name in American retailing soon will be history. A month ago, Montgomery Ward announced it is filing for bankruptcy and closing its 250 stores, including two in the Quad-Cities. The Quad ...
an American icon — is going out of business after 128 years. It has fallen victim to the same corporate Darwinism that has gobbled up other once-famous names. And while ...
Montgomery Ward was founded in 1872 in Chicago by Aaron Montgomery Ward, a traveling salesman who wanted to sell city goods to rural customers. By 1900, annual sales reached $8.7 million.
Charles H. Thorne was one of five sons of George Thorne, the brother-in-law of Aaron Montgomery Ward and in the early 1870s co-founder with him of what would become a nationwide retailing empire.
What: A 1919 Montgomery Ward catalog for sale for $125 at the Canton Preservation Society store. It's among a few stacks of old mail-order catalogs for sale there now.
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