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1922: Businesses gather for bargain day sale
By Betty Mann, Rock County Historical Society president
May 04, 2015
The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on May 5, 1922: Next Wednesday, May 10th, Will Be Big Bargain Sale Day in Luverne Sixty-one Business Houses Join in Holding Community Sale Day, All to Offer Special Bargains in Seasonable Merchandise Sixty-one of the business houses of Luverne have united for the purpose of making next Wednesday, May 10, a community sale day — a day of unexcelled…
1922: Nobles County orders concrete, Sioux City orders crushed stone from Rock County manufacturers
April 28, 2015
The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on April 28, 1922: TWO LUVERNE COMPANIES SECURE LARGE CONTRACTS National Concrete Co. Secures $36,000 Tile Order; Quartzite Quarries, Inc., Sells 200 Carloads Crushed Rock Two of Luverne’s manufacturing concerns, the National concrete Materials Co., and the Quartzite Quarries, Inc., have secured substantial contracts for their products during…