Marshall Rauch, a Jewish Gaston County politician who once was the largest Christmas ornament maker in the world died March 18. He was 102. Rauch was renowned for Gastonia-based Rauch Industries, ...

The new Restoration Hardware catalog has been landing - with a thud - in mailboxes across the country, weighing in at a whopping 5 1/2 pounds. With the rise of bulk mailing rates, a heightened ...

It may be a short story in a long setting, but when 86-year-old jewelry and watch industry veteran Seymour Holtzman and his wife Evelyn heard of the passing of actress and comedian Betty White, they ...

If you think it’s tough shopping for one house or apartment, how would you like to have to shop for millions of them? Chicagoan Betti Rosenberg loves it. Rosenberg, a former interior designer, gave up ...

Marcus M. Spiegel was a prolific letter writer, corresponding as often as he possibly could with his beloved wife, Caroline, back home in Millersburg while he served in the Union Army during the Civil ...

The pages of the 1942 Sears Christmas catalog held much that might seem quaintly old-fashioned today. The department store retailer’s easy payment plan, which could be laid out in a simple grid, has ...

An iconic American catalog featured a openly transgender model on its cover for the first time. Spiegel’s, which has been in the mail order clothing business since 1865, put Arisce Wanzer on the cover ...

Model Arisce Wanzer is on the cover of the new issue of Spiegel, an American retail catalog, making her the first transgender model to grace the 111-year-old magazine's cover. Erika Barker, who ...

A long-vacant Bridgeport warehouse best known as the former home of the Spiegel catalog company has a new owner. Blue Star Properties, known for its redevelopment of Pilsen's Thalia hall, bought the ...

The National Security Agency’s sophisticated hacking operations go way beyond using software vulnerabilities to gain access to targeted systems. The agency has a catalog of tools available that would ...

Edward “Ted” J. Spiegel, 82, of Northfield, Illinois and Aspen, Colorado, was the beloved husband of Audrey (nee McIntyre) and the late Lynn Peterson Spiegel. Ted is recognized as one of the country’s ...