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• Primarily rural in the 19th Century, Wisconsin promoted the State Fair to advance better state farming practice
• "improve agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical and household arts."
• To these fairgrounds self-sufficient farming families brought their best efforts in raising chickens, sheep, cows, rabbits, horses and pigs and displayed their horticultural skills in prize pies, breads and canned goods.
• Today, these fairground buildings still display the best of individual and community achievement in Northern Wisconsin.

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• August and son Bert Mason were the original founders.
• start by manufacturing logging boots for the lumberjacks and rivermen
• • include pictures if they are from before 1920???? can we do that? these would be cool to use!
• first catalog was printed in 1906
• door-to-door salesme
• went from a strictly home office sales operation to a home office/branch office operatio
• In 1969 Mason took a huge step forward by installing a computer to track sales and salespeople.  In fact, we were a pioneer in name and list processing on computers.
• Mason “salesman” program was eliminated
• considered one of the largest footwear catalogers in the world
• expanded into apparel
• Mason, which markets up to 300 name brands and 10,000 styles through its ShoeMall.com
• 2007 Mason was recognized in Internet Retailer Magazine as one of the top 500 Web Retailers in the world. Mason ranked 153
• Installment credit
• Mason currently employs more than 400 people in the community of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

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