Tag Archive: general store

SalvageHappy — The Steamboat Arabia

My husband needed to go to Des Moines, Iowa for business, and he figured that driving would be almost as fast as going to the airport, dealing with security, and then trying to… Continue reading

New Goods! New Goods! An Ohio Storekeeper’s Inventory from 1838

Earlier this year, I typed up the 1847 inventory of Jacob Weaver, a storekeeper in Knox County, Ohio; this week I worked on the 1838 estate inventory of another storekeeper from the same… Continue reading