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If you were in the market for a watch in 1880, would you know
where to get one? You would go to a store, right?
Well, of course you could do that, but if you
wanted one that was cheaper and a bit better than most of the store
watches, you went to the train station! Sound a bit funny?
Well, for about 500 towns across the northern United States, that's where the best watches were found.
Why were the best watches found at the train station? The railroad company wasn't selling the watches, not at all. The telegraph operator was. Most of the time the telegraph operator was located in the railroad station because the telegraph lines followed the railroad tracks from town to town. It was usually the shortest distance and the right-of-ways had already been secured for the rail line.
Most of the station agents were also skilled telegraph operators and that was the primary way that they communicated with the railroad. They would know when trains left the previous station and when they were due at their next station. And it was the telegraph operator who had the watches. As a matter of fact they sold more of them than almost all the stores combined for a period of about 9 years.
This was all arranged by "Richard," who was a telegraph operator himself. He was on duty in the North Redwood, Minnesota train station one day when a load of watches arrived from the east. It was a huge crate of pocket watches. No one ever came to claim them.
So Richard sent a telegram to the manufacturer and asked them what they wanted to do with the watches. The manufacturer didn't want to pay the freight back, so they wired Richard to see if he could sell them.
So Richard did. He sent a wire to every agent in the system asking them if they wanted a cheap, but good, pocket watch. He sold the entire case in less than two days and at a handsome profit.
That started it all. He ordered more watches from the watch company and encouraged the telegraph operators to set up a display case in the station offering high quality watches for a cheap price to all the travelers. It worked! It didn't take long for the word to spread and, before long, people other than travelers came to the train station to buy watches.
Richard became so busy that he had to hire a professional watch maker to help him with the orders. That was Alvah. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The business took off and soon expanded to many other lines of dry goods.
Richard and Alvah left the train station and moved their company to Chicago - and it's still there.
IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT that for a while in the 1880's, the biggest watch retailer in the country was at the train station. It all started with a telegraph operator: Richard Sears and his partner Alvah Roebuck!
Well, for about 500 towns across the northern United States, that's where the best watches were found.
Why were the best watches found at the train station? The railroad company wasn't selling the watches, not at all. The telegraph operator was. Most of the time the telegraph operator was located in the railroad station because the telegraph lines followed the railroad tracks from town to town. It was usually the shortest distance and the right-of-ways had already been secured for the rail line.
Most of the station agents were also skilled telegraph operators and that was the primary way that they communicated with the railroad. They would know when trains left the previous station and when they were due at their next station. And it was the telegraph operator who had the watches. As a matter of fact they sold more of them than almost all the stores combined for a period of about 9 years.
This was all arranged by "Richard," who was a telegraph operator himself. He was on duty in the North Redwood, Minnesota train station one day when a load of watches arrived from the east. It was a huge crate of pocket watches. No one ever came to claim them.
So Richard sent a telegram to the manufacturer and asked them what they wanted to do with the watches. The manufacturer didn't want to pay the freight back, so they wired Richard to see if he could sell them.
So Richard did. He sent a wire to every agent in the system asking them if they wanted a cheap, but good, pocket watch. He sold the entire case in less than two days and at a handsome profit.
That started it all. He ordered more watches from the watch company and encouraged the telegraph operators to set up a display case in the station offering high quality watches for a cheap price to all the travelers. It worked! It didn't take long for the word to spread and, before long, people other than travelers came to the train station to buy watches.
Richard became so busy that he had to hire a professional watch maker to help him with the orders. That was Alvah. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The business took off and soon expanded to many other lines of dry goods.
Richard and Alvah left the train station and moved their company to Chicago - and it's still there.
IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT that for a while in the 1880's, the biggest watch retailer in the country was at the train station. It all started with a telegraph operator: Richard Sears and his partner Alvah Roebuck!
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I BET YOU WATCH THIS TWICE!!
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Political
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Photos of Ri Sol Ju, the North Korean first lady and the
wife of Kim Jong Un.
Ri Sol Ju doesn't look like a usual North Korean woman.
She wears short dresses and even has a luxury Christian Dior purse.
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There was a job opening in one of the
country's most prestigious law firms, and it finally comes down to Robert and
Paul. Both graduated magna cum laude from law school. Both come from good
families. Both are equally attractive and well spoken. It's up to the senior
partner to choose one, so he takes each aside and asks, "Why did you
become a lawyer?" In seconds, he chooses Paul.
Baffled, Robert takes Paul aside. "I don't understand why I
was rejected. When Mr. Armstrong asked me why I became a lawyer, I told him
that I had the greatest respect for the law, that I'd lay down my life for the
Constitution and that all I wanted was to do right by my clients.
"What in the world did you tell him?"
"I told him I became a lawyer because of my hands,"
Paul replies. "Your hands? What do you mean?"
"Well, I took a look one day and there wasn't any money in either of them!"
"What in the world did you tell him?"
"I told him I became a lawyer because of my hands,"
Paul replies. "Your hands? What do you mean?"
"Well, I took a look one day and there wasn't any money in either of them!"
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this weeks signs!!
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Sad, but true
thanks Kitty L
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Odd Cars
thanks Geoff C
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Off the coast of Newfoundland, a great many fishermen do their fishing at
night.
They navigate solely by the light of the moon, scorning more sophisticated
methods.
Of course, from time to time this method fails, and shipwrecks are the
result.
The Department of Fisheries was reviewing statistics one day, and was
shocked to discover how many shipwrecks there were during night fishing.
When they discovered that the fishermen were navigating by the light of the
moon, they promptly installed buoys near all the dangerous shoals and reefs to
aid night navigation.
To their surprise, when the statistics came in the following month, the
shipwrecks had tripled!
The buoys were removed, and things returned to normal.
The moral of the story… You can’t send a buoy to do a moon’s job!!!
Right after Queen Victoria visited the Canadian city named after her
(Victoria, British Columbia, of course), she was asked if a housing development
could be named in her honor — Victoria Mews.
The Queen replied “We can be a city in Canada, We can be a state in
Australia and We can be a falls in Africa, but We are NOT a mews!”
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On a Church Billboard near you
A lawyer was on his deathbed in his bedroom, and he called to
his wife. She rushed in and said, "What is it, honey?"
He told her to run and get the Bible as soon as possible. Being a religious woman, she thought this was a good idea. She ran and got it, prepared to read him his favorite verse or something of the sort.
He snatched it from her and began quickly scanning pages, his eyes darting right and left.
He told her to run and get the Bible as soon as possible. Being a religious woman, she thought this was a good idea. She ran and got it, prepared to read him his favorite verse or something of the sort.
He snatched it from her and began quickly scanning pages, his eyes darting right and left.
The wife was curious.
"What are you doing, honey?" she asked.
"I'm looking for loopholes!" he shouted.
"What are you doing, honey?" she asked.
"I'm looking for loopholes!" he shouted.
PHILS PHILOSOPHY
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Thanks for your weekly posting. I always look forward to it, because you somehow manage to have such a high strike rate for great pictures and jokes. Thanks a lot.
ReplyDeleteI watched the test with hubby and we both got 15 right. We flunked the second part. We don't thing outside the box.
ReplyDeleteLoved Tom Hanks. That was funnier than heck, but believable.
The win-win was awesome.
Have a terrific day Phil. :)