August 15, 2012, 05:54 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: September 8, 2007
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 16,175
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What a lot of people also don't realize about these small stores is that they often were much more than simply a store. They were often a restaurant, a post office, an informal bank, the railroad office/telegraph office (if they were located on or near a line) and, in the age of mail order for things that often weren't carried in stores outside the big cities, the order and package acceptance service.
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Some of them are still standing in Rural Ms. I've bought stuff out of a couple of them back in younger days.
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