RARE Advertising Card - General Store - Durkee Ful Milk Bread Port Crane NY 1920

Description: RARE Original - Advertising Card E.S. Young's Store with Car Pulling Cow - Durkee's Ful-milk Bread Port Crane, New York ca 1920s For offer - a nice old advertising card! Fresh from an estate in Upstate NY. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, antique, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Nice scene. Corners clipped, and that looks like the way it was made for some reason - I saw another one once with same thing. Nice scene in frony of General Store. Advertising on back. Scarce card. Measures 4 x 7 inches. In good condition. Upper rh corner chipped. Please see photos. If you collect postcards, 20th century history, American, Americana, etc., this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. 2981 Fenton is a town in Broome County, New York, United States. The population was 6,441 at the 2020 census.[2] The town was named after Reuben Fenton, a governor of New York. The town is in the northeastern part of the county and is northeast of Binghamton. History The area was first settled around 1788. The town of Port Crane was formed from the town of Chenango in 1855. The larger town of Fenton was established in 1867. Port Crane has remained as a hamlet within the town of Fenton. The former Chenango Canal (1834–1876) passed through the west side of the town, following the Chenango River. The town developed and prospered with the advent of the canal. While the canal was supplanted by the railroads, the town was bypassed by the trains. When the canal was gone, the prosperity in Port Crane left with it. Nearby: Towns Barker Binghamton Chenango Colesville Conklin Dickinson Fenton Kirkwood Lisle Maine Nanticoke Sanford Triangle Union Vestal Windsor Hamlets Castle Creek Center Lisle Chenango Bridge Chenango Forks Glen Castle Hawleyton Hillcrest Hydeville Itaska Kattelville Newmans Corners Nimmonsburg North Fenton Nineveh Pleasant Hill Port Crane Quinneville Summit Hill West Chenango Wyman Corner Census-designated places Binghamton University Chenango Bridge Endwell Glen Aubrey A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise.[1] It carries a broad selection of merchandise, sometimes in a small space, where people from the town and surrounding rural areas come to purchase all their general goods. The store carries routine stock and obtains special orders from warehouses. It differs from a convenience store or corner shop in that it will be the main shop for the community rather than a convenient supplement. General stores often sell staple food items such as milk and bread, and various household goods such as hardware and electrical supplies. The concept of the general store is very old, and although some still exist, there are far fewer than there once were, due to urbanization, urban sprawl, and the relatively recent phenomenon of big-box stores. The term "general merchandise store" is also used to describe a hybrid of a department store, with a wide selection of goods, and a discount store, with low prices. Examples include J. C. Penney and Sears.[2] General stores and itinerant peddlers dominated in rural America until the coming of the automobile after 1910. Farmers and ranchers depended on general stores that had a limited stock and slow turnover; they made enough profit to stay in operation by selling at high prices. Often farmers would barter butter, cheese, eggs, vegetables or other foods which the merchant would resell. Prices were not marked on each item; instead the customer negotiated a price. Men did most of the shopping, since the main criterion was credit rather than quality of goods. Indeed, most customers shopped on credit, paying later when crops or cattle were sold; the owner's ability to judge credit worthiness was vital to his success. The store was often a gathering point for local men to chat, pass around the weekly newspaper, and talk politics.[18][19][page needed] In the South the general store was especially important after the Civil War, as the merchant was one of the few sources of credit available until the cash crops (usually cotton or tobacco) came in.[19][page needed] There were few towns and very few cities, so rural general stores and itinerant peddlers were the main sources of supply.[20][21][22] During the first half of the 20th century, general stores were displaced in many areas of the United States by many different types of specialized retailers in trading towns and small cities. But from the 1960s through present, many small specialized retailers have in turn been crushed by the so-called "category killers", which are "big-box" wholesale-type retailers large enough to carry the majority of best-selling goods in a specific category, like sporting goods or office supplies. Gray's General Store of Adamsville, Rhode Island is reputed to be the oldest continually operating general store in the United States until its temporary closure in 2012.[23] It subsequently reopened in the summer of 2013.[24] However, the convenience inherent in the general store has been revived in the form of the modern convenience store. A few variety stores draw upon the concept of having a broad variety of goods servicing small communities where big-box retailers are absent; Dollar General Stores, in particular, draws its name from both the "dollar store" concept of having items at a fixed price point and the general store.'

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