Botkin lived in Missouri and East Texas before the instruments were damaged in a 1903 family house fire ... only watches and jewelry from 1888 to 1893, Sears Roebuck began issuing a general catalog in ...

When the new Sears-Roebuck catalog store opened on the south side of downtown Athens in 1959, according to the June 4, 1959 Athens Review, it was a reminder of Sears being a national commercial ...