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gone by, much of the merchandise was not prepackaged. Sugar, dry beans, soda, peanuts, brown sugar, and black pepper were all bought in bulk then weighed or measured out by the merchant, but that was before the Falls’ became shop keepers.
However, Mr. Burke rememberd when the country store was also the community center, barter post and post office and said the post office in Woodville was at one time in the store. “Folks brought cured meat, poultry, eggs and walnut kernels to trade for goods and groceries. We’ve taken in more eggs here in a week than you could find in all of Rappahannock County today, and now the government doesn’t allow us to buy home cured meat and sell it because it isn’t government inspected.”
Old time merchants had a big stalk of golden bananas suspended ffom the ceiling instead of in “hands” on the
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