Name/Title
Tootle-Campbell Dry Goods Companies Information FIle, 1909-1953Entry/Object ID
AM2009.20.20Scope and Content
Tootle-Campbell Dry Goods Companies Information FIle, 1990-1953. File Folder of published and company-prepared documents that describes this Dry Goods Wholesale Co., its history and transactions as below. Includes photos of 80th Anniversary Display and illustration of 1909 building.
From Tootle Scrapbook 09.20.16.
--Company, History: Tootle-Campbell Dry Goods Company, St. Joseph, MO. Type written report. 2 pages. Includes sections: Started, Operations, Territory Covered, Merchandise Sold, Employees. undated.
--"Introductory Letter, Tootle-Campbell Dry Goods, Co, St. Joseph, MO. January the First Nineteen Hundred and Nine.". "An Old Business Under a New Name, Sixty Years In The Wholesale Dry Goods Business." "To the Western Merchant...Inside gives company history, Officers, Dept. Managers, Salesmen, Facilities, Mail Order Dept., Catalog. Announces new building. 6 pages inside cover. Tootle Totem on cover. Illustration of new 8-story building on back.
--Totem illustration of Tootle History. Tootle-Campbell at top--1909, Tootle, Wheeler, Motter--1893, Tootle-Hosea--1881; Tootle Craig-1872; Tootle & Farileigh--1860, Smith & Tootle--1849.
--Tootle History typed on Tootle Dry Goods letterhead. List current directors, undated but after 1946 and death of Milton Tootle, Jr.
--Newsletter Article, "1929 Completes 80 Years of Progress for Tootle-Campbell". in Armstrong Wholesaler Newsletter, August, 1929.
--Newspaper section: "Centennial Year of Tootle Company Recalls Origin in Frontier Store Near Water Front", St. Joseph News-Press, March 6, 1949.
--News Clipping, "Tootle Dry Goods Co. Marks Centennial This Year., Daily News Record, July 7, 1949. Handwritten note attached. "A Trade Paper Used by Buyers & Merchants All Over the Country..."
--News Clipping, "40 Years Ago--Dec. 28, 1898", Incorporation of Tootle-Wheeler Motter, names directors. St. Joseph News-Press,1938.
--Correspondence, To Byron Reed, Omaha, citing the establishment of Dry Goods businesses in Omaha as Tootle-Jackson in 1855; in Council Bluffs in 1850 and Sioux City in 1856 under same name. signed, E.B. Plummer, President, July 31, 1953
--Shipping Order Form. Tootle Campbell. handwritten message on back indicating sender had sent an 1880's invoice to Company. dated 3-3-39.
--Christmas Card, Marking first year of business. Tootle-Campbell Dry Goods, St. Joseph. Signed by T.B. Campbell.
--Employee Thank You letter and employee list. undated. Mentioning 8 employees with 25 years of service. Employee list gives the names and dates of hire by decade. undated but c. 1928.
-Employee List. "Names to be Engraved (without reference to years of service.). undated.
--Employee Rules: Store hours, duties, smoking & going to barber, dancing are suspicious activities. Must donate $5/year to church and go to Sunday School. Given 1 evening a week for courting, 2 if you go prayer meeting.
--News Clipping, "Dry Goods Houses to 5-Day Week:, St. Joseph News Press, 1930s. "Tootle-Campbell's & John Brittain's Inaugurate New Program... Accept N.R.A. Code. No Employees Will Have to Take Wage Reductions--Some New Men Will Be Employed and There Will Be Some Increases in Pay at Local Wholesale Houses." No Saturday or Sunday work.
--News Clipping, "Wages Up 15 Percent", St. Joseph News-Press, July 22, 1933. "Machine Operators at Tootle-Campbell Factory Get Increase". Overall manufacture, Operating under the National Recovery Act.
--Letter to Salesmen, March 11, 1933, providing them with $25 cash to travel on because banks had been closed. signed by W.D. Tootle.
--Certificate, Associated Reciprocal Exchanges, Quarter Century Club, to Tootle-Campbell. dated June, 1935.
--Postcard of Circus Fat Lady & handwritten order for overalls from Jumbo Finn, Dodsoms World Fair Shows. St. Louis, MO. April 28, 1938.
--News Clipping, "Flies to Buy His Goods", St. Joseph News-Press, Oct. 25, 1932. "Texas Merchant Comes Here by Plane to Give His Order". Lands at Rosecrans, purchased large order at Tootle-Campbell.
--News Clipping, "Robbers Take $750 Payroll.. Employee of Tootle-Campbell Dry Goods Company is Victim of Strong-Arm Methods While Carrying Money from Office to Factory. St. Joseph News-Press, March 2, 1934.
--Newspaper Ad, Tootle-Campbell Dry Goods. Quarter-page ad in St. Joseph News Press, Illustration of Building at 4th & Faraon, 71 years, description of offerings, list of exclusive brands. 1921.
--Newspaper Ad, Tootle Dry Goods, Full page, St. Joseph News-Press, 1949. 100 Years of Progress. Map of U.S. with distribudtion area. News Photos of Omaha & St. Joseph Buildings. Short history.
--Trade Card or product insert, for "Tootle's Leatherwear",
--Edititorial, W.D. Tootle, Tootle-Campbell Dry Goods, in Kansas Grocer League, April 16, 1932. "Suggest a Policy Committee to Check Up on Manufacturers". Regarding the rise of chain stores.
--Ediitorail, W. D. Tootle, Letter regarding independent merchant policies, dated May, 7, 1932
--Old Invoices from 1880s sent from Damme's Store, Talmadge, NE, Feb. 6, 1950.
--Photos (2), 80th Anniversary. Anniversary sign above a display of two mannequins in home setting, tables with various clothing draped One photo shows 4-tiered 80th Anniversary cake on banquet table with punch bowls. b/w. 8" x 10"
--Photo, map of United States with lines from St. Joseph showing western distribution and eastern supply routes.
--Illustration, 1909 Building.
--Photo, 1909 8-story building.Lexicon
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