<p>Forceful activism amid rapid social change results in legislation shot down by the most powerful court, leading to calls for sweeping court reform. This was New York State in the early 20th century. How the State Court of Appeals weathered this storm holds lessons for SCOTUS today, if the Justices and their critics care to learn from history.</p>
<p>Forceful activism amid rapid social change results in legislation shot down by the most powerful court, leading to calls for sweeping court reform. This was New York State in the early 20th century. How the State Court of Appeals weathered this storm holds lessons for SCOTUS today, if the Justices and their critics care to learn from history.</p>
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Are S&H Green Stamps Still Available in Michigan?
Where did you used to get your S&H green stamps?
I remember my mom coming home from the grocery store every week loaded down with S&H green stamps. My sister and I used to wet em down and put em in the little stamp booklets, and then look through the catalog to see what we could get for free with the amount of stamps we had. Of course, we never had enough to get the stuff I wanted.
The initials “S&H” stood for the men who came up with em – Sperry & Hutchinson. Other lesser redeemable stamps had been around briefly, but in 1896, S&H took it to new heights. By the 1930s these stamps could be found in almost any Michigan grocery store or gas station.the amount of stamps you received depended on how much money you spent.
Did your mother ever give you the job of pasting trading stamps into books? Mine did. My childhood is full of rainy afternoons spent licking (or wetting with a sponge after I got smart) drawers full of S&H Green stamps. That entitled me to browse the S&H Idea Book to see what we could spend our stamps on. It was almost as cool as looking through the JCPenney Christmas Catalogue⦠almost. My recent discovery of trading stamps in the Sophienburg Collection prompted a little more in depth look at trading stamps in New Braunfels.Â
Before there were frequent flyer miles, hole punched discount cards or computerized loyalty discounts, there were trading stamps. Trading stamps were developed as a retail loyalty program. Merchants would purchase the stamps in varying point denominations and give them out based on the amount of the purchase. Stamps were then pasted into savings books and redeemed for other merchandise. Sperry & Hutchinson created S&H Green Stamps in 1896. They were one