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