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Carruth Store Ledger


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This store ledger is from the Carruth Store in Spring Creek, Louisiana in Tangipahoa Parish. It documents daily business transactions. The store bought cotton, cottonseed and corn. Items the store sold included shoes, shirts, pants, calico, tobacco, sugar, coffee, wine and whiskey. The front of the ledger also contains several obituary clippings that have been pasted over existing pages. Most of the obituaries represent people from Rapides Parish.


-See Also
The Carruth Journal, 1872-1902 by Rev. J.H. Carruth
Available in CGHRC at location F375 C37 1996