Menswear in the J.C. Penney catalog. 

James Cash Penney Jr.
(September 16, 1875 – February 12, 1971)

James Penny Jr. was a businessman and
entrepreneur who founded the JCPenney
stores in 1902.

J. C. Penney mother store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Bob Wian (below) was the founder of the Big Boy restaurant
chain which began as a 10-stool hamburger stand in Glendale,
California, opening in 1936 with an investment of $300
raised from the sale of his car.

Robert C. Wian (June 15, 1914 – March 31, 1992)

The "Jell-O" brand is a registered trademark of Kraft
Heinz, and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

In 1897, in LeRoy, New York, carpenter and cough
syrup manufacturer Pearle Bixby Wait trademarked
a gelatin dessert called "Jell-O". Wait and his wife,
May, added strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lemon
flavoring to granulated gelatin and sugar.

1904

In the East End of London, revivalist preacher William Booth and
his wife Catherine (below) establish the Christian Mission, later
known as the Salvation Army. Determined to wage war against
the evils of poverty and religious indifference with military
efficiency, Booth modeled his Methodist sect after the British
army, labeling uniformed ministers as “officers” and new
members as “recruits.”

In 1878, the organization was renamed the Salvation Army, and
two years later the first U.S. branch opened in Pennsylvania.

Official website salvationarmy.org

(FOX NEWS) – An intimate testament to love and to home
written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was
sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday.

A "friendship album" compiled by 19-year-old bride-to-be
Ellen Maria Brackett of Quincy, Massachusetts.

Paintings of former President John Adams, right, and his
wife Abigail Adams, are displayed at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts.