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I found these in a lot of paperwork that I acquired recently and thought others may find them interesting;
Hall Motor Company, Fort Collins, Colorado
Cooper Irvin Motor Company, Amarillo, Texas
Higgins Motor Company, Higgins, Texas
Jones & Lindley, Ford Dealers, Clovis, New Mexico

The gentlemen named on the invoices, J.B. Kerr and E.E. Townsend, were travelling sales representatives for the St Joseph Stock Yards Company of St. Joseph, Missouri and these invoices were filed with their October, 1925 expense reports. They then stayed filed away in the Stock Yard Company's building in St Joseph for nearly a century before being plucked from the rubble after the building was recently demolished.

Jason Midyette

Thank you for saving and sharing these, Jason.

I lived in Clovis, NM from 2009 to 2014 and it was terrible then, I can only image how desolate it was in 1925.

Those are so cool! Thanks Jason. Imagine 40 CENTS for labor then!! Wow have things changed! Now, so many people make 40 DOLLARS an hour and they still complain it aint enough!!

How much of that $40.00/hr do they actually get paid, and what will it actually buy?

130nav wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 17, 2023 11:04 pm

I lived in Clovis, NM from 2009 to 2014 and it was terrible then, I can only image how desolate it was in 1925.

Clovis is New York City compared to Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, just 57 miles down the highway from Clovis. Ft. Sumner is the "armpit of New Mexico" and is bad enough to give the country of Mexico, a bad name. There are no decent restaurants in town and one Saturday afternoon after 5 PM, when I drove through there and needed law enforcement, there was non to be had. In spite of Ft. Sumner being the county seat and the sheriff's office being located there, it was locked up with no one in sight.

ModelTWoods wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 18, 2023 12:36 pm

130nav wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 17, 2023 11:04 pm

I lived in Clovis, NM from 2009 to 2014 and it was terrible then, I can only image how desolate it was in 1925.

Clovis is New York City compared to Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, just 57 miles down the highway from Clovis. Ft. Sumner is the "armpit of New Mexico" and is bad enough to give the country of Mexico, a bad name. There are no decent restaurants in town and one Saturday afternoon after 5 PM, when I drove through there and needed law enforcement, there was non to be had. In spite of Ft. Sumner being the county seat and the sheriff's office being located there, it was locked up with no one in sight.

I’m glad the Air Force didn’t put a base in Ft. Sumner, we drove through there a lot on the way to Albuquerque and Santa Fe. I guess after they shot billy the kid they thought there wasn’t much need of law enforcement in Ft. Sumner.