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)

On July 8, 1776, a 2,000-pound copper-and-tin bell now
known as the “Liberty Bell” rang out from the tower of
the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall)
in Philadelphia, summoning citizens to the first public
reading of the Declaration of  Independence. Four days
earlier, the historic document had been adopted by
delegates to the Continental Congress, but the bell did
not ring to announce the issuing of the document until
the Declaration of Independence returned from the
printer on July 8.

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S.
government, sailed into Tokyo Bay, Japan, with a squadron
of four vessels on this day in 1853. For a time, Japanese
officials refused to speak with Perry, but under threat of
attack by the superior American ships they accepted letters
from President Millard Fillmore, making the United States
the first Western nation to establish relations with Japan
since it had been declared closed to foreigners two
centuries before.

Millard Fillmore
(January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874)

Anyone who needs stamps might want to head out and grab
them before the United States Postal Service’s latest price
hikes go into effect this weekend. (FOX NEWS)

The cost of a "forever" stamp for first-class mail is rising from
63 to 66 cents Sunday as part of increased mailing prices
approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission earlier this
year at the request of the USPS. The USPS said it needed more
money in part due to high inflation.