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Sep 2024
1h 7m

New Recording! 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co....

SHARON HANDY
About this episode

Let’s close out our month of new versions of old episodes with a fresh recording of our very first foray into the 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Consumers Guide. In this episode, we trip through the Drugs Department, and what a trip it is. How anyone survived 19th-century medicine, I cannot say.

 

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