January 7, 2012

The shelves of the I. W. Carpenter Store in Gentry (Benton County) are stacked to the ceiling with many of the daily goods necessary for survival in early twentieth-century Arkansas. What could not be produced on the farm was purchased at the local stores when money was available. Such stores abounded in small-town Arkansas.

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