“Thus far Cincinnati has the Louisville, Washington and St. Louis series on its charm string, while Chicago has broken even.” ...

String and buttons are two ingredients you might discover in the junk drawer. Did you know you can use those materials to create a science toy that might get the entire family "Hooked on Science." ...

Trays of buttons bequeathed by Bertha Beam are on display at the Allen County Museum. Beam, who began collecting buttons as a 5-year-old in the 1880s, had amassed about 12,000 of them by 1948 and was ...

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It’s unclear what Dr. Henry Cogswell was trying to say about the life of San Franciscans in 1879 when he placed a string of buttons in his time capsule in Washington Square Park. Perhaps it went just ...