Tag Archive: fabric

New Goods! New Goods! An Ohio Storekeeper’s Inventory from 1838

Earlier this year, I typed up the 1847 inventory of Jacob Weaver, a storekeeper in Knox County, Ohio; this week I worked on the 1838 estate inventory of another storekeeper from the same… Continue reading →

Ohio Merchant’s Inventory from 1847

While hunting online for our ancestors’ records, I have been searching through collections of digitized microfilm pictures.  I have been lucky; many of them have already been indexed, making it easy to go… Continue reading →

Fabric on the Cutting Edge of Current Events!

  This morning I read a story on Reuters about online stores that are fakes, set up to process gambling payments.  One of the fake stores highlighted in the story is called My… Continue reading →

Trial by Fiber, Part Three

Note:  It all started with “Paper or plastic?”, didn’t it?  Before that, wise minds knew what was best – it was bad to cut down trees, so plastic was the better choice.  But… Continue reading →