Commissary Department as Modern Department Store in Canal Zone
The 1908 Canal Zone report describes the Commissary Department operating thirteen branch stores supplying ice meats bread pies cakes ice cream groceries laundry and more with an annual $3.74 million in goods and about 742 employees. It portrays a monopoly-like system with no profit motive, fixed 10 percent overhead, broad catalog advertising and weekly notices in The Canal Record, plus strict hours in Cristobal and Culebra and detailed weekly price lists for fresh meats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissary
Canal Record
Cristobal
Culebra
Thor
J.L. Mead Cycle
Church Services At First Presbyterian And Methodist
First Presbyterian holds services Sundays at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. W. C. Cheatham superintendent. Long services weekly Wednesdays. J. Craig Watt pastor. Methodist Episcopal South preaches Sundays at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Epworth League 4 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p.m. Rev. J. W. Aker.
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First Presbyterian
W. C. Cheatham
J. Craig Watt
Methodist Episcopal
M. A. Hoffpaulr
Epworth
J. W. Aker
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Anna Jones
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Cardus
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Munn & Co
Scientific American
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Washington, D.C
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Fortune
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Seventh St
Washington, D. C
Duncan Church Directory
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J. A. Hunter
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White & Clark
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Lamar Cobb
Independent Assay Office
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Knights of Pythias
Harcrow
Duncan Arizona
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