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Cow Butter Store Records

  • 2.3.5
  • 1894-1940

Includes business ledgers containing financial information, store inventories, and other information about the operations of the Cow Butter Store. These ledgers also contain a wide range of enclosed material including correspondence, newspaper clippings, writings, and ephemera.

Cow Butter Store

Enclosures from 1902 ledger

Includes brochure titled "Memorial Ceremony of the Improved Order of Red Men Commemorating the Anniversary of the Death of George Washington, 14th Sleep, Hunting Moon (Dec. 14th)", two tickets to a social time at Red Men's Hall, section of the Tacoma New Herald, August 20, 1904 and The West Coast Trade, September 24, 1903.

Enclosures from 1905 ledger

Includes clippings, receipts, letter to the editor titled "A Contemptible Freeze Out - Gypsum PLant Stockholders Lose" and sections of The West Coast Trade dated January 24, 1907 and November 14, 1907.

Enclosures from 1920 ledger

Includes receipts for $2 store license for several years, dues for Improved Order of Red Men, City of Tacoma Department of Health and Sanitation certificate for clerk Maudelle Barry, clippings from Tacoma Sunday Ledger regarding vaccination order for Tacoma Public School students.

Enclosures from 1922 ledger

Includes receipts, clippings, letter from American Medical Liberty League on anti-vaccination, draft of letter to the Library of Congress asking for copyright on a poem by James Hunter of Ireland, statement of squatter's rents collected by Mr. Meier for J.A.Sproul, and copy of lease agreement for land at the crossing of Sproule road and the Tacoma-Seattle Interurban.

Enclosures from 1928 ledger

Includes receipts and clippings, many regarding Mount Tacoma, a letter from Frank Day of the Shull-Day Company on the name of the mountain, and the obituary for Eliza Sproule in Norwegian language.

Enclosures from 1930-1931 ledger

Includes receipts and clippings, regarding chain stores, Mount Tacoma, Robert Sproul of the University of California, abd a draft letter to the Chief of Police regarding the want of parking downtown.

Enclosures from 1932 ledger

Includes clippings, brochure titled "The Independent Grocer By an Independent Wholesaler No.40 May 1, 1932", and a lettter from the Tacoma Federation of Improvement Clubs.

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