Grocers

Scope and Contents This collection is a photocopy of a ledger book kept by Rushton and Sons, in Center Valley, Indiana, in 1887 and 1888. The book is imprinted with numbers through 199, but many of the pages were not photocopied, presumably because they were blank. Most of the entries are alphabetical by last name of the purchaser. The list contains the item purchased and the cost. The last page, 199, has a prescription for "cholera enfantum" consisting of "two table spoonsful of Listerime in one quart of warm...