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Sears Catalog

The Sears catalog and other mail-order outfits negatively affected the easy prosperity for the rural general stores. In some places the local merchants would trade with the children of the community. They’d offer one movie ticket for every Sears or Montgomery Ward catalog the kids could bring. Then these merchants would have big bonfires to burn all the catalogs.

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