{"id":17741,"date":"2015-10-29T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=17741"},"modified":"2015-10-29T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:17:08","slug":"may-stern-co-furniture-carpeting-cash-or-credit-cincinnati-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2015\/10\/29\/may-stern-co-furniture-carpeting-cash-or-credit-cincinnati-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"May, Stern &#038; Co. &#8211; Furniture &#038; Carpeting &#8211; Cash or Credit &#8211; Cincinnati, OH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/cincinnati\/cincinnati-oh-may-stern.jpg?resize=580%2C867\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"867\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9\u00a0Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In 1906 Spiegel&#8217;s mail order sales were nearly $1 million, far exceeding anyone&#8217;s expectations. To handle the overwhelming success of the mail order operation, a new company\u2014Spiegel, May, Stern and Company\u2014was formed, allowing the Spiegel House Furnishings Company to devote its limited resources to conventional retailing, rather than assume the debts associated with building up the mail order segment.\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Wikipedia<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/cincinnati\/spiegel-may-stern.png?resize=580%2C352\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"352\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">cropped from larger ad below &#8211; Spiegel, May, Stern, &amp; Co. Newspaper Advertisement in The Los Angeles Herald (May 10, 1908)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/cincinnati\/spiegel-may-stern-lg.jpg?resize=580%2C972\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"972\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Los Angeles Herald (May 10, 1908)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/cincinnati\/Spiegel2.jpg?resize=580%2C818\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"818\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1958 Spiegel Catalog Cover, open source from the Spiegel Website and Facebook group. They give open license to use on-line. &#8211; Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1906 Spiegel&#8217;s mail order sales were nearly $1 million, far exceeding anyone&#8217;s expectations. 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