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Starting a button-making business involves a modest investment in equipment, supplies and marketing aids, and you can operate this type of business from a spare room in your home or a small rental ...

Clam shell gatherers were the front line in the booming pearl button business in 1897. Congress that year approved a favorable tariff law, the Dingley Act, giving American manufacturers an advantage ...

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