Clark Thread

Even though there was much overlap and common ownership in the two companies, they were independent until 1931 when the two firms elected a single president, John B. Clark.

Corliss, Coon & Co.

A detachable collar is a shirt collar  separate from the shirt, fastened to it by studs. The collar is usually made of a different fabric from the shirt, in which case it is almost always white, and, being unattached to the shirt, can be specially starched  to a hard cardboard-like consistency.

Sears, Roebuck Catalogue

In 1906, Sears opened its catalog plant and the Sears Merchandise Building Tower  in Chicago.   Also, by that time, the Sears catalog had become known in the industry as "the Consumers' Bible". In 1933, Sears issued the first of its famous Christmas catalogs known as the "Sears Wishbook", a catalog featuring toys and gifts, separate from the annual Christmas Catalog. The catalog also entered the language, particularly of rural dwellers, as a euphemism for toilet paper.
Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face (which looks like a clock) and an internal mechanism which makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured (usually a skein). The pointer allows the spinner to see how close she/he is to reaching a skein. The weasel's gear ratio is usually 40 to 1, and the circumference of the reel is usually two yards, thus producing an 80-yard skein when the weasel pops (after 40 revolutions)
Flax seed is 20 percent oil, known as flax oil or linseed oil.  It was traditionally used for lighting in oil lamps, as the basis for printer's ink and oil-based paints, furniture finishing and for its medicinal qualities.