Robert talks with George Whalin, President of Retail Management Consultants, about Montgomery Ward, which announced today that it will shut down and file for bankruptcy. The department store has ...

A cigarette card in 1888 featured John Montgomery Ward recreating one of the 111 stolen bases he had in the previous season. Eight years earlier, he had thrown a perfect game.

Montgomery Ward Inc. began as a mail order catalog nearly 60 years earlier before launching a brick-and-mortar location in Indiana in 1926.

Montgomery Ward was in business here from about 1931 to 1977. Soon afterwards, the building was razed, and the site has continued to provide downtown parking to this day.

Milgrom says the Montgomery Ward catalog is different from HomeVisions because it offers a “broader variety of products, and an expanded selection of home furnishings,” along with more items at lower ...

From the start in 1872, Aaron Montgomery Ward targeted his catalog at farmers and other rural residents lacking access to big city stores. "There's definitely a lot of recent immigrants,” Evan says.

“Today we utter a collective thank-you to A. Montgomery Ward.” The bust, distinguished by Ward’s prominent mustache, is the smallest of three sculpted after Ward’s death in 1913.

Many of Montgomery Ward's old vendors and products and several former employees are part of the new Ward's, which sells 46,000 items online ranging from rugs to recliners and home electronics to ...

HUNTINGTON — In 1872, Aaron Montgomery Ward, a traveling dry goods salesman, started selling to farmers by mail through a one-page catalog list. By inventing the general merchandise mail-order ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The upper level of the old Montgomery Ward building, once the tallest building in Chicago, is now on the market. It can be yours, along with a stellar view of Millennium Park, for ...