This wholesale grocery company was considered a home institution in its time. It was first established in St. Louis, but in 1913 the main office was located in Marion in a building at 600 N. Van Buren Street next to the Illinois Central railroad tracks. Continue reading
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The Roland New Theater appears to have been built in 1906, the only other opera house in town other than the Marion Opera House at 400 N. Market St. Continue reading
Their second fire in about four months gutted the Reach & Son Battery Mfg. plant at 1007 W. Aikman St., Marion Sunday at 9:30 pm officials of the fire department said. Continue reading
Reach and Son Battery manufacturing plant was gutted Friday at 9:30 pm by a fire that is believed to have started around a small gas burner used for heating sealing compound. Continue reading
A California motorist who stopped at the C.V. Ridgley service station, 501 East Main Street for gas at 6:30 pm Thursday crashed his car into a gasoline pump, causing a $500 fire. Continue reading