Records, 1915-1946 (bulk 1916-1936)

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Records, 1915-1946 (bulk 1916-1936)

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Records of a general store in Eliot, Maine. The collection contains two major types of records: invoices from suppliers of goods to the Eliot Farmers' Union from 1915 to 1946, and order books recording customer purchases from the store, 1916 to 1943. The invoices are arranged alphabetically by company name and include such companies as General Mills, the Dover Grain Company, Kendall & Whitney, Milliken Tomlinson Company and the National Biscuit Company. The order books record by date customers' names, what was bought and the costs. Typical purchases include oats, cheese, flour, corn, sugar, alfalfa, and stock feed. In addition, the collection contains deposit slips for the First National Bank of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, recording cash and checks deposited by John Staples, 1917-1932.

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Raymond H. Fogler Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7779478

Raymond H. Fogler Library

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Milliken, Tomlinson Company

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Wholesale grocery store established by Weston Freeman Milliken in 1856; expanded into the lumber industry, import and export. At one time the company was the largest importer of molasses in the U.S. From the description of Records, 1894-1936. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978856 ...

Dover Grain Company.

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Kendall & Whitney.

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General Mills, inc.

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Minneapolis, MN. From the description of Pamphlet and handbill, ca.1930. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122364952 In 1893 the Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis opened a Buffalo office from which to distribute its flour throughout the East. A Buffalo flour mill followed in 1904, and in 1928 General Mills was organized with Washburn-Crosby as its nucleus. Washburn-Crosby was dissolved in 1937. General Mills Buffalo operations include a cereal...

Staples, John W.

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Eliot Farmers' Union (Maine).

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The collection contains records of the Eliot Farmers' Union, a store in Eliot, Maine, owned and operated by John W. Staples. The store seems to have been in existence from 1915 to 1946 and sold grain, flour and groceries. Very little information is available about John Staples; a town census taken in 1904 lists a John W. Staples as a farmer in Eliot. From the description of Records, 1915-1946 (bulk 1916-1936) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 60491407 ...

National Biscuit Company

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The National Biscuit Company was founded in 1898, the product of a merger among the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company, the New York Biscuit Company, and the United States Baking Company. The new conglomerate was headquartered in New York City with 114 bakeries across the United States. Over the next several decades the company grew by acquiring companies such as the F.H. Bennett Company, maker of Milk-Bone Pet Products, and the Shredded Wheat Company, maker of Triscuit Wafers and Shredd...