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Kevin Hunt: Furnace Leaks, Coventry Woman Fumes While Waiting Days For Promised Sears Repair
The Hartford CourantDo not count Catherine Nasin among those who welcomed the recent Fourth of July holiday. All it meant was one more day of cleaning up a furnace leak as she waited for Sears repair service to return to her Coventry home. Nasin, who turns 88 in August, was... -
Sears bids Hometown, Outlet, hardware stores goodbye in spinoff
Sears Holdings Corp., one of several struggling big-box retailers, is splitting off more than 1,000 Hometown, Outlet and hardware stores as a separate, public company. The spinoff will affect 1,238 stores total. Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc....Tags: Google+, Kmart, JC Penney Company Inc., Companies and Corporations, Real Estate Buyers
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Antique vegetable advertisements popular with collectors
Fresh vegetables were part of the diet of the Victorian household during the warm, growing months. But stored root vegetables and home canned food were used on snowy days. Advertisers knew that imaginary vegetables acting like humans were as popular a...Tags: Oakland Athletics, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Elections, Toy Industry, Salt
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Interview with Douglas Oberhelman, CEO of Caterpillar
Douglas Oberhelman is the most outspoken business leader in Illinois.
As CEO of Peoria-based Caterpillar, he has placed himself — and the issue of Illinois' fiscal crisis — centerstage through a series of sharp-tongued op-eds bemoaning the...Tags: U.S. Congress, Energy, Investments, Illinois Governor, Parties and Movements
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When Sears, the Facebook of its era, launched its IPO
Even people who don't play the market are thinking this week about buying stock in Facebook's initial public offering of shares.
One hundred six years ago, Sears, Roebuck and Co. was its era's version of a hot tech company. Like Facebook, Apple or...Tags: Steve Jobs, Social Media, Facebook, World War II (1939-1945), Mark Zuckerberg
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Three California Sears stores among 79 outlets to close nationwide
Money & CompanyThree Sears stores in California are among 79 stores nationwide on the chopping block after a dismal holiday season forced Sears Holding Co. to retool its strategy.... -
Current Prices
Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions. Holt Howard salt and pepper set, men, Old West style with beards and...Tags: Prices, Salt, Anglo-Saxon Gold Hoard Discovery (2009), Baking Powder
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Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...Tags: Michael Connelly, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, The New York Times, Fort Lauderdale
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Sears to sell, spin off stores after $2.4-billion quarterly loss
Sears Holdings Corp. posted a $2.4-billion loss in its fourth quarter but appeased investors by planning to sell or spin off many of its stores to boost liquidity.
The Hoffman Estates, Ill., company reported a loss of $22.63 per share in the quarter that...Tags: Hoffman Estates, General Growth Properties, Inc., Real Estate Sellers, Services and Shopping, Hometown
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Margaret R. Garrett, 91
Margaret R. Garrett, 91, of Gaithersburg, Md., formerly of Friendship Heights, Washington, D.C., went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. She was the wife of the late Roscoe F. Garrett, who passed away May 16, 1981. Born March 8, 1920,...Tags: Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland), Washington, DC, Religion and Belief, Human Interest, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
Jul 28, 2012
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Mar 16, 2012
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Feb 23, 2012
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Jan 17, 2012
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