"General store" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... buys his cigars of Thompson, the general store man, and I keep the finest line ever brought to ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne
... Rutledge in her last illness. He was thrifty, and moving to Petersburg in 1840, became wealthy. He died in 1860. Dr. Francis Regnier was a rival physician and a respected citizen. Samuel Hill and John McNeill (whose real name subsequently proved to be McNamar) operated a general store next to Berry & Lincoln's grocery. Mr. Hill also owned the carding-machine. He moved his store to Petersburg in 1839, and engaged in business there, dying quite wealthy. Jack Kelso followed a variety of ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
... originally gaudy hues, and it was now a melancholy monotone of dull, pallid yellow. Here and there the paint had vanished altogether, and the bleached boards showed underneath. Like most of the other structures in Blue Creek—which boasted a general store, post office and Chinese laundry and restaurant combined the National House was coated with a thin layer of gray alkali dust, the gift of the glittering desert ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham
... general store of a small Ohio town and complained to the storekeeper that a ham that he had purchased there a few days before had proved not to ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... Mostly not real U-nited States Mail, y'know, because we don't mind dropping off a note to someone in town. I'm the local mailman, too. So when I find a note to Herby Wharton, the fellow that owns the general store, I drop it off. Margie Clark over at the bank says he writes. Gets checks from New York from publishing companies." The station-master looked around as if he were looking for Soviet spies. "He's a scientist, all right. He's doin' something ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
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