{"id":4189,"date":"2017-02-20T04:26:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2017-02-20T04:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:26:41","slug":"trautvetter-buys-chicago-drug-store-in-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4189","title":{"rendered":"Trautvetter Buys Chicago Drug Store in 1923"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add this to the list of things one can discover in the personals column:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>evidence that someone purchased a drugstore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 9 August 1923 issue of the\u00a0<em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> contained a personal announcement that Wm. G. Trautvetter had purchased the drug store at 300 E. 79th Avenue in Chicago and would not be responsible for any d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4190 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trautvetter-buys-store-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"trautvetter-buys-store\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trautvetter-buys-store-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trautvetter-buys-store.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ebts contracted by the business before to 3 August.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Trautvetter purchased the building on the location is not known. It&#8217;s possible he only purchased the business and rented the property.<\/p>\n<p>Time probably won&#8217;t allow me to follow up on those details of Trautvetter&#8217;s ownership, but this advertisement does help provide additional framework for Trautvetter&#8217;s drugstore operations in Chicago during the early twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Not what I was expecting to find in the personals column. But it goes to show that one never knows what may end up in the classified advertisements of a newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add this to the list of things one can discover in the personals column: evidence that someone purchased a drugstore &nbsp; The 9 August 1923 issue of the\u00a0Chicago Tribune contained a personal announcement that Wm. G. Trautvetter had purchased the drug store at 300 E. 79th Avenue in Chicago and would not be responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}