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 ...

An oil painting of Aaron Ward featuring the NHL teams he played for, hangs in his Apex home on Friday, May 10, 2024. Ward is a three-time Stanley Cup Champion and member of the 2006 Carolina ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Aaron Ward, a three-time Stanley Cup Champion and member of the 2006 Carolina Hurricanes poses for a portrait on Friday, May 10, 2024 in Apex, N.C.

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.

They include: -- Mail-order retailer Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1844 -- Texas oil millionaire H.L. Hunt in 1889 -- Author Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, in 1924 ...