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Current Issue of The Common Stuff
- Belleville, Illinois -Beautiful City,
Not-So Beautiful Shot Glasses
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Dick Bales is a regular
contributor to this website, drawing attention to the "common" and
perhaps underappreciated glasses that lurk in every collection.
In addition to juggling the demands of family and a hectic job (he's
Assistant Regional Counsel for the Wheaton branch of Chicago
Title Insurance Co), he's managed to research and publish the TRUE
story of the Great Chicago Fire. This definitive work finally
debunks many widely-held beliefs about the role of Mrs O'Leary and
her much-maligned bovine in the 1871 disaster. Visit
his website
for more details and
buy his book! Dick is currently working on a book about
another infamous Chicago figure, Cap Streeter. Visit Dick's
new site
www.capstreeter.com to learn more! |
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Previous issues of
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Vol. 6, No. 1 :
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Fishkill Landing, NY: Another "One Hit Wonder" |
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Vol. 6, No. 2 :
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The Detricks: Variations of a Common Glass |
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Vol. 6, No. 3 :
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Pre-pro to Post-Pro: An Example |
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Vol. 5, No. 1 : |
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Strip Clubs, Bars and Shot Glasses in E Dubuque, IL. |
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Vol. 5, No. 2 : |
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One Hit Wonder: Warsaw, Illinois |
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Vol. 5, No. 3 : |
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Hayner Glasses - the Ultimate Collection? |
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Somewhere in Time on Mackinac Island |
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Vol. 5, No. 5 : |
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A Sociological Study of Women on Shot Glasses |
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Vol. 5, No. 6 : |
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Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis: A Shot Glass Mecca or Morass? |
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Vol. 4, No. 1 : |
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Pyramids in pre-Prohibition Illinois |
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Vol. 4, No. 2 : |
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The Name is Bond, Bottled in Bond |
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Vol. 4, No. 3 : |
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The Devil (and Shot Glasses) in the White City |
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Vol. 4, No. 4 : |
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The Old and the New (Part I) |
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Vol. 4, No. 5 : |
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The Old and the New (Part II) |
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Vol. 4, No. 6 : |
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The Old and the New (Part III) |
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Vol. 3, No. 1 : |
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The Commercial Side of Truog (Part I) |
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Vol. 3, No. 2 : |
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The Commercial Side of Truog (Part II) |
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Vol. 3, No. 3 : |
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eBay, The internet and Glass Research |
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Vol. 3, No. 4 : |
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Fields of Dreams: Shot Glass Collecting Specialization |
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Vol. 3, No. 5 : |
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A New Series Glass? |
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Vol. 3, No. 6 : |
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Hanging Around Arkansas |
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Vol. 2, No. 1 : |
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Chasing Hayners |
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Vol. 2, No. 2 : |
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Pre-pro Glasses in the Hard Rock Cafe |
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Vol. 2, No. 3 : |
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Security in Glass
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Vol. 2, No. 4 : |
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Desperate Housewives and Glass Research
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Vol. 2, No. 5 : |
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Grand Glass of the GAR |
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Vol. 2, No. 6 : |
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Starving for glass in Illinois
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Vol. 1, No. 1 : |
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Building a new collection via eBay |
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Vol. 1, No. 2 : |
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Putting eBay into its proper perspective |
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Vol. 1, No. 3 :
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A collection of "Sunny Brooks" |
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Vol. 1, No. 4 : |
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Ferreting out "glass gaffes" |
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Vol. 1, No. 5 : |
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The Shot Glass - Art or History? |
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