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Notable buildings include the Hatten & Munch Building (1897), Moore & Schwern Building (c. 1890), Methodist Episcopal Church (1889), First Baptist Church (1891), Shaw Building (1895), and DuBois Public Library (1923). Located in the district and separately listed was the Commercial Hotel. [2]
Canvassing subscription sales were the only way to deliver books to many rural areas of America. [2] Hawkers (peddlers) were often frowned upon by the law, but book peddlers were treated differently. For example, Massachusetts and Missouri excepted book peddlers from laws imposing penalties on unlicensed hawkers. [3]
DuBois is located approximately 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Pittsburgh. The population was 7,510 as of the 2020 census. [3] It is the principal city in the DuBois, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. DuBois is also one of two principal cities, the other being State College, that make up the larger State College-DuBois, PA Combined Statistical ...
In England and Europe during the medieval period, the term "huckster" was synonymous with "peddler." [5] [6] Hucksters and peddlers belonged to a broad group of resellers who purchased surplus stocks from weekly provincial markets and fairs and then resold them at larger daily markets or engaged in door-to-door selling.
The H. W. Wilson Company, Inc. is a publisher and indexing company that was founded in 1898 and is located in The Bronx, New York.It provides print and digital content aimed at patrons of public school, college, and professional libraries in both the United States and internationally.
The publisher of his most recent novel said it was ‘deeply disturbed’ by the allegations and decided to ‘immediately suspend all promotion and sales’ of his books
The DuBois brothers divided their land into parcels and established the village that bears their name. John DuBois left the West Branch Susquehanna Valley before Duboistown was established as a borough. He sold his business interests and moved west to Clearfield County. He became quite wealthy and the city of DuBois was named in his honor.
The Book of the Dead of Hunefer, c. 1275 BCE, ink and pigments on papyrus, in the British Museum (London). After extracting the marrow from the stems of papyrus reed, a series of steps (humidification, pressing, drying, gluing, and cutting) produced media of variable quality, the best being used for sacred writing. [10]