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Featured Advertisement: Cracker Jack

Posted by: Yvonne Dooley

On this day in 1918 the featured Cracker Jack ad appeared in Washington, D.C.’s Evening Star suggesting folks ship the treat to troops overseas for Thanksgiving. The fine print in the middle of the ad states: Cracker Jack is a favorite with soldiers and sailors everywhere. They learned to love it before the war, and …

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On Researching Capitalists, Financiers, and Builders of Empires

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

I have written several posts on industrialists and capitalists from America’s past – J.P. Morgan, Hetty Green, Andrew Carnegie, James Swan, and Jay Gould and James Fisk. But for those researching people who haven’t yet been featured, there are some great resources. One of the most accessible sources is the encyclopedias, available in most public, …

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Featured (Spooky) Advertisement: Cafe Republique

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

While I have yet to figure out a good business-themed post for Halloween, I did find this spooky 1910 advertisement for Café Republique at 15th and F NW Streets in Washington, D.C. which was not too far from the White House. Café Republique opened in September 1910 and seems to have been a fairly nice …

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Gazette of the United States on “Every Species of Intelligence, which may affect the commercial, agriculture, manufacturing, or political Interests”

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

One of my favorite Library resources has just gotten better now that the Gazette of the United States has been added to Chronicling America. The Gazette was the leading Federalist newspaper. The paper was friendly to the administration of George Washington and had as one of its biggest supporters, the first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. …

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The Real Merchants of Venice

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

I am always trying to find interesting ideas for business themed blog posts, so when I saw the banners for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s “The Wonder of Will at 400,” I immediately thought of the Merchant of Venice. Since ours is a science and business blog, this is not going to be an analysis of …