Correspondence, 1903-1939.

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Correspondence, 1903-1939.

Correspondence with customers and representatives, the branch office in Bloomington, Ill., and regional distributors, including Diets Machinery Company (Bloomington, Ill.), Lininger Implement Company (Omaha, Neb.), Moline-Hooper Company (Memphis, Tenn.), Parlin and Orendorff Implement Company (St. Louis, Mo.), Rock Island Implement Company (Kansas City, Mo., and Oklahoma City, Okla.), Rock Island Plow Company (Rock Island, Ill., and Minneapolis, Minn.), and Southern Plow Company (Dallas, Tex.). Topics include marketing and sale of corn shellers, oat sprouters, and power hoists; foreign sales and sales opportunities, primarily in Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and the Soviet Union; federal and state legislation affecting commerce and employment; and World War I.

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