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Blacksmith billheads

Copies and comments courtesy of Rene Elliott other contributors.

Blacksmiths on North Broad, George Strait was also a Chevrolet dealer at one point. Both bill heads were the same size, these are just xerox copies that appear to have been printed with identical letterhead.

Candy Turner Where did these come from? William King was my grandfather.I haven't seen this before.How wonderful to see Grandpa Bill's name again.He was a kind and gentle soul.Thank you for posting!
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Rennie M Elliott

Postcard 36, West Main St.

Photo and comments courtesy of Rene Elliott.

1950. The post office building has already lost the knobs off the roof but the Naylor Buildings still have them and that little peak (false front) that has since been simplified. the question has always been if that was caused by the Nov. 1950 east wind hurricane that caused a lot of damage and downed trees in town/Upstate NY?

Klindt's Garage, the Morris Locker Plant, and other businesses

Stationery from Klindt's Garage about 1927.

Copy above and comment courtesy of Rene Elliott.

The 1925 ad, when he was still behind the bank, in the building which burnt before 1950?

Purol Gasolene
Tiolene Motor Oil

You don't see them everyday anymore.

1917 Linn Tractor Ad

Advertising copy and comments courtesy of Rene Elliott.

Early 1917 Linn advertisement showing the prototype built here over the winter of 1915-1916, before they had a picture of a new production tractor to use in advertising.

Text from the ad is listed below

The Linn Tractor

You have all heard of it weighing only four tons
and drawing four times its own weight, having a
carrying capacity of 5 tons on its own body.

It vi11 work on all kinds of ground because
it is of the self-laying track or caterpillar type and

1930 Linn Trailer promotional photograph

Photo and comments courtesy of Rene Elliott

May 1930 they staged this Boy Scout camping photo for publicity of the Linn "U-Can-Back" trailer H.H. Linn was building in his own firm in West End, Oneonta. The site is under the town sandpile now at the back of the fairgrounds, you can see the spillway (between the lower pond and mud pond) in the background. Ken Cooke is at left, Adolphus Sloan and the Wheeler boys (sons of Ed Wheeler Jr., grandsons of Mrs. H.H. Linn), and George Whitman?

Clyde Sloan's gas station on the site of the current Dollar General

Photo and comments courtesy of
Rene M Elliott

c. 1923 or '25 Clyde Sloan's Gas Station and ice cream parlor (located where the Dollar General store is now)

L to R Clyde Sloan, Dud Myers, Art Yale and unknown?

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