Wednesday, March 7, 2012

A Little More in the Same Vein



  
     This was in the same pile as the RLDS Church Directory that was in the last post.  If you look directly above the "IA" in the caption, there is a large box.  I happened to zoom on that part of the photo and this is what I found: 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

      The sign on the side says "gasolene," so it must be an early gas pump.  I have never seen anything similar.  I wonder how many cars were in Moorhead, IA during the second decade of the twentieth century. Were the farmers using tractors and others gas-powered equipment? 

      Along with the ad for the McIntyre Drugstore, I'm reposting the fan.  Here's a little piece of ephemera, designed to be thrown away, but instead stuck in a drawer.  It amazes me that a piece of cheap paper has survived so long. 





      

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