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Example sentences for "general store"

  • Meeting with success in selling these, he turned all his attention to carrying on a general store which he conducted for more than forty years.

  • Hotchkin built the first business building, opening a general store, and he was also appointed as the first postmaster.

  • This Grange now operates a general store.

  • William Hughes is the master, and a general store is operated with an extensive trade.

  • In 1880 a hotel was conducted by Silas Dickerson and a general store by Charles Roe.

  • Jensen Company of Walla Walla, was born in Denmark in 1868 and at the age of fourteen years began work in a general store.

  • In 1869 he opened a general store as a member of the firm of Paine Brothers & Moore.

  • Paine, in the conduct of a general store and in 1871 took over the management of a branch store in Waitsburg.

  • Obed Gott came hurrying from his paint and oil shop, which was next to the "general store.

  • That side of the building, being furthest from the street, was out of view from the post office and "general store.

  • Barlows’ is a General Store in a rising town.

  • It consisted of a section house, a small shanty called the Johnson restaurant, one story and a half log house run by Daniel Freeman as a general store, and a stockade built of ties used as a place of safety for the horses and cows.

  • Klein & Lang had a general store on the corner of Second and Court streets, and here we did nearly all of our trading.

  • It was no uncommon thing for the Erwin & Powers Company, conducting a general store at this time, to take in from one thousand to twelve hundred dollars on Saturdays.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general account; general assault; general assembly; general battle; general effect; general expression; general government; general ideas; general knowledge; general level; general notion; general prices; general prosperity; general reserve; general service; general survey; general symptoms; general view; general welfare; generally distributed; generally preferred; generally recognised; generally supposed; royal government; soon appeared; young squire