Lindsay and Madison discuss Alexander Turney Stewart, as well as how to start an empire from the ground up, that Amazon wasn’t the first to offer free shipping, and that you shouldn’t touch dead things.

Information pulled from the following sources:

• 2016 Atlas Obscura article by Andrew Lenoir
• 2010 Unbound Smithsonian Libraries and Archives blog post by Elizabeth Periale
• 1899 The Philadelphia Times article
• Britannica
• The Famous People
• Geni (1)
• Your Dictionary
• Wikipedia

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