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Scrambled Local Ads List Across Le Mars and Surrounding
A long OCR fragment lists names of shops and items across Le Mars and neighboring towns including Little Brown Jug, Wrench Set, Perfume, Hostessware, Ice Crusher, ShipN Shore Blouses, Slippy Duck & Dollies, Cufflink & Tie Clasp, Dan Opener, Flashlites, Permanents, Planter, Proto Tools, and more. The entries pair store names with customers, locations like Le Mars Remsen Orange City Hawarden Alton Merrill and repeated product lines, hinting at a local advertisement or catalog page. The text weaves many brand items with many people and places, creating a dense, cross-referenced ad sheet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Brown Jug
Vollmar’s
Leora Laughton
le Mars
Dick's
Dale Zimmerman
Dear Lovely
Alvin Grosenheider
Sears
Perfume
Ev. & Maries
Phillip Rush
Merri
Billford
Bower's
Irene Madsen
Gambles
J. W. Johnson
Saar As
Tot
Swan’s Super
Eugene Kennedy
Maurice Eleator
Dick O’kane
Maurice
Alton
Proto Tools
Open End
S. Pete Hanson
Alton McCormick Sales & Service
Libby Hostessware
D. E. Lambert
Lutjen
Bernard Gray
Planter
John Brangwin
le Ev. & Maries
Duck & Dollies
Remsen
Walford Worth
Village Drug
Orange City
Wiliam Schemmel
Granville
ABC
Peter DeJong
Mes. Lambert
van Wyhe