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Blain Supply, Inc., doing business as Blain's Farm & Fleet, is a regional, family-owned chain of 45 farm supply retail stores in four states (Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan) of the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Blain's Farm & Fleet was an early adopter of "buy online, pick up at the store" in which all stores provide a ...
[4] Allen began producing sleds in his farm equipment factory to keep his workers busy even when it was not the farm season. He developed many prototypes before he created the Flexible Flyer. The sleds did not sell well until he began marketing them to the toy departments of department stores. In 1915, around 120,000 Flexible Fliers were sold ...
Digital Impact's choice of mascot was a kid sea otter named Ozzie S. Otter, being an endangered species to fit with the subject of ecology. Ozzie was designed to appeal to young users with his energetic, playful personality. [1] Digital Impact expanded the franchise with a spin-off series titled Ozzie's Travels. They released three of those ...
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To question whether or not Farm and Fleet is worthy of a Wikipedia page is dramatically overstating the importance of Wikipedia (85% of the topics on Wikipedia are less important than Blain's Farm and Fleet). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.239.5.179 19:59, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
The snells would have different lengths due to the height above the water of the line along its length: 1 in (2.5 cm) adjacent to the board and hip-height adjacent to the fisherman. [3] In Britain, fishing with an otter was forbidden by the Salmon Fishery Act 1861; this may have been one of the reasons why British anglers introduced it to ...
Samuel Leeds Allen (May 5, 1841 – March 28, 1918) was the founder of S.L. Allen & Company in Philadelphia. He was the inventor of, and his company manufactured, both the Flexible Flyer sled and Planet Jr farm and garden equipment.
Fleet Farm was founded in 1955 by Stewart Mills Sr. and his sons Henry Mills II and Stewart Mills Jr. The first store, named Fleet Wholesale Supply, was opened in Marshfield, Wisconsin. [2] Similarly named Blain's Farm and Fleet was also founded in 1955 by Bert and Claude Blain, friends of the Mills family. The two families agreed to use ...