If you’re pining for the primordial days when Christmas wasn’t so commercial, consider this: By the late 1800s, Christmas shopping was big business in Baltimore. And the Baltimore Sun was its cheerleader. An 1895 editorial in The Sun described Christmas shopping as “trade converted into poetry……
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Baltimore and the birth of Christmas shopping
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