Flickr user BryantSpokane scanned and posted a page from a 1972 Stromberg’s Chicks & Pets Unlimited catalog. Stromberg’s apparently used to mail-order live chickens, chinchillas, ferrets, armadillos, skunks, badgers, beavers, possums, prairie dogs, and other critters. This particular page highlights the money making aspects of owning fur-bearing animals. via BoingBoing.
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When Waitrose decided to stock Fraser Doherty’s SuperJam in its stores, he became the youngest entrepreneur to make it into a major supermarket chain. However, that is not where his achievements end, reports Sunderland Echo. Fraser was just 14 when, using his gran’s recipes, he developed a healthier jam with 100 per cent fruit and
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Eric Favre, credited as the inventor of the Nespresso coffee capsule system, is going to take a leap into the Asian market with a similar system that makes tea reports The Independent. Favre … will unveil his new “Tpresso” system in Beijing next Wednesday. The head of Swiss firm Monodor “has been working for 30
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