The S. H. Knox & Company 5- and 10-cent store at 1104-1106 Main is pictured on an old color post card of 1906. The card was published in Germany. Across the front of the red-painted store the name is applied in heavy brass lettering. Smaller signs below bear the information Nothing over 10c. Nothing in the store at the time sold for more than a dime. City directories of 1905 listed H. S. Griffin as manager and in 1906 Joseph Norton was manager. The store carried many notions such as needle, pins, buttons, thread, fancy work, sheet music, cups and saucers, souvenirs and china from Japan, handkerchiefs, nutmeg graters, strainers, sieves, towels, toys, china dolls with moveable arms and legs (held in place with wire or elastic), envelopes, tablets, pencils, pens, ink, pen points and innumerable small items in hardware, clothing and paper. Perhaps the greatest contribution made by the Knox store to Kansas Citians were the post cards made of Kansas City scenes. Local amusement parks, boulevards, buildings new and old, river scenes and steamboats, schools, churches and streets were photographed here and printed in color in Leipzig, Germany. The cards sold for 5 cents, and in small lettering on the address side was the information: Printed expressly for S. H. Knox & Co., Kansas City, Missouri. A 1-cent green postage stamp carried them anywhere in the U.S.A. Kansas City Times, March 6, 1976.
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