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Tremendous Triples The Watch That Started The Largest Mail Order House
In 1886 Richard Warren Sears, a 19 year old North Redwood Minnesota station agent, received a package of watches that went unclaimed and set him on the path to founding Sears Roebuck. The small village near Redwood Falls shaped the unlikely origin of a mail order empire.
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Sears, Roebuck & Company
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