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While I was browsing through the books at my local library, I came across  the 1902 edition of the Sears Roebuck Catalogue (now known as just Sears). The catalogue contains thousands of beautiful illustrations of watches, ribbons, hats, sewing machines, musical instruments, kitchen utensils, carriages, weapons, furniture, canned goods and everything any American might need or want at the turn of the century. It’s fascinating to look through the catalogue and see items that remain unchanged today as well as things that I wish were still available. Looking through the catalogue was enlightening and educational as well as entertaining. Below are some of the products along with their descriptions that I found quite interesting.

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Learner’s Telegraph Outfit

To those who are about to start in life, either ladies or gentlemen, there is nothing at the present  which offers better inducements than telegraphy. The smallest salaries paid are about $35.00 per month, but the salaries usually paid are from $50.00 to $125.00 per month and many even get much more. Besides, the only inducements are not the salary alone, for it opens the way to other and more expensive fields of work. For $1.65 we furnish a Learner’s Complete Telegraph Outfit consisting of key and sounder, working batery, wire and Manual of Telegraphy  (a complete instruction book), a regular $5.00 outfit.

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Bust Cream or Food

It is a delightful cream preparation, put up by an eminent French chemist, and forms just the right food required for the starved skin and wasted tissues. The ingredients of the Bust food are mainly pure vegetable oils, perfectly harmless. Combined in a way to form the finest nourishment for the bust glands. It is delicately perfumed and is unrivaled for developing the bust, arms and neck making a plump, full, rounded bosom, perfect neck and arms, a smooth skin, which before was scrawny, flat and flabby.

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German Liquor Habit Cure

We guarantee a complete cure. Our remedy is perfectly harmless, none of the bad effects produced by many so-called liquor cures so widely advertised. That drunkenness is a disease that can be cured by medicine, just the same as other diseases can, is a fact becoming well known. No medicine has had  such a wonderful success in this age of progress as our Liquor Habit Cure. It creates an appetite for food instead of liquor, it stimulates the whole system to healthy action it quiets nervous excitement, vertigo, muscular trembling and all the dangerous effects of excessive use of liquor. It is, in fact, a perfect cure for the drink habit.

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White Ribbon Secret Liquor Cure

THE GREATEST MEDICAL DISCOVERY OF THE AGE. White Ribbon Secret Liquor Cure, only $1.10 per box, 30 complete  treatments, saves thousands from that awful monster drink; snatches thousands from a life of disease, poverty and degradation, releases man from the dondage of whisky, reforms the most abandoned drunkard. White Ribbon Secret Liquor Cure is odorless, colorless and tasteless; a powder that can be given secretly in tea, coffee or food, and by its action on the system positively removes all taste, desire or craving for intoxicating liquors.

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New Kenwood Folding Camera

Our Kenwood Folding Camera represents one of the very latest most up to date features of all high grade folding cameras, with the defects of none. With the Kenwood Folding Camera you can accomplish any results and do any kind of work that can be done with other cameras at from three to five times our prices, and as we include without extra charge a copy of our new 112-page manual. The lenses used in our Kenwood Folding Camera are made expressly for this camera by the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company and are the highest grade of single achromatic lenses which this manufacturer turns out. The possess great depth of focus, covering the plate sharply to the extreme corners, work very rapidly, producing sharp, clear, pictures with fine detail.