Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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sleep. So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

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a link in the show description. Now let's get to the reading. Tonight Roebuck and Co.

Tonight we're returning to one of your all-time favorites, the 1897 Sears Roebuck and

Co. Consumer's Guide, number 104.

That's right, it's the Sears catalogue.

And in this spring season of Easter bonnets,

what better time to explore the millinery department?

Let's begin.

Milinery department. Millenry Department

We take pleasure in directing the attention of our customers

to this very complete department, including as it does, a line of trimmed and untrimmed hats, patterned

after the latest novelties imported from Europe. Our buyers have been unusually fortunate in

securing for the coming season a selection of millinery that has no equal in any ordinary retail store in the

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