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The former Fuller Brush factory’s distinctive tower with Gothic and Tudor arched openings crowned with corner turrets and a parapet can be partially seen from I-91.

Started in 1906 by a 21-year-old from Nova Scotia, Alfred C. Fuller, the company grew into the Fuller Brush Company that today has just 180 employees, mostly at its Great Bend, Kan., headquarters.

Also, "if they're under 40 years old, they'll get a puzzled look on their face because they've never heard of Fuller Brush," Timms said. That's where a half a century-plus of sales experience ...

Instead, the 90-year-old Pearson keeps busy with the same company he joined 70 years ago after a Fuller Brush man knocked on his mother's door and offered him a job.