He was the sex symbol of the Roaring Twenties the Arrow Collar Man. Manufacturer Cluett Peabody made its fortune on those stiff, detachable shirt collars, but
On April 27, 1860, a crowd assembled at the corner of State and First Streets at the Mutual Bank Building, later the National Bank Building. A young 28-year-old man, runaway slave, named Charles Nalle, reported as “light skinned and wore a beard,” and who had escaped from Virginia on October 19th, 1858, had been hoodwinked […]