Encounters
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Frontier village merchants like Lincoln and Berry were general factotums for everyone and thus came to know what was happening in their neighborhoods. Stores were gathering places, often containing the post office, and usually had a whiskey barrel in a back room with a tin cup dangling from its side.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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