Antique Mercantile

💥ANTIQUE MERCANTILE 226 Main Ave
OPEN Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 11:00-5:00
Closed Sun.

Washin’ Clothes
Years ago, a Tennessee grandmother gave the new bride the following recipe for washing clothes. It appears below just as it was written, and despite the spelling, has a bit of philosophy. This is an exact copy as written and found in an old scrap book (with spelling errors and all).
1. Bilt fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water.
2. Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert.
3. Shave one hole cake of lie soap in bilin water.
4. Sort things, make 3 piles. 1 pile white, 1 pile colored, 1 pile work britches and rags.
5. To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with bilin water.
6. Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and then bile. Rub colored don't bile, just rinch and starch.
7. Take things out of kettle with broomstick handle, then rinch, and starch. 8. Hang old rags on fence! .
9. Spread tea towels on grass.
10. Pore rinch water in flower bed. 11. Scrub porch with hot soapy water. 12. Turn tubs upside down.
13. Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs. Brew cup of tea, drink it and rock a spell and count your blessings.
Post this over your washer and dryer and next time when you think things are bleak, read it again and give thanks for your blessings!

ANTIQUE MERCANTILE will be Open EXTENDED HOURS this weekend!! July 13 & 14
226 Main Ave. Brkgs
SAT.10:00-6:00. SUN. 12:00-5:00
Or by Appt. Call 605-690-7910

Mergatroyd ? Do you remember that word?
Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word, Mergatroyd
Heavens to Mergatroyd!
The other day a not so elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy; and he looked at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" He had never heard of the word jalopy! She knew she was old ...But not that old.
Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory when you read this and chuckle.
About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.
These phrases included: Don't touch that dial; Carbon copy; You sound like a broken record; and Hung out to dry.
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie . We'd put on our best bib and tucker, to straighten up and fly right.
Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers!
Jumping Jehoshaphat!
Holy Moley!
We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley ; and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.
Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" Or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!" We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.
P**f, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those great phrases gone?
Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper.
Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses.
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills.
This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too!)
Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth.
See ya later, alligator! Okidoki .
You'll notice they left out "Monkey Business"!!!

At the age of 67, Emma Rowena Gatewood told her adult children she was going out for a walk. Little did they know that her “walk” would make her the first woman to hike the 2,168-mile Appalachian Trail from Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine solo, and in one season. She was a farmer’s wife from Ohio, a mother to 11 children who gave her 24 grandchildren, and a survivor of domestic violence.

💥Jewelry Galore!...ANTIQUE MERCANTILE
226 Main Ave. Mon-Sat 11-5:00💥

In 1930, a Hungarian inventor encouraged children to play with marbles in a puddle, noticing that the balls left a trail of water in their path. So an idea came up: why not use a ball-shaped metal tip to write? Thus the pen was born. László József Biro presented his idea with his brother György, a chemist, and together they sought research and experience to create a new type of pen based on this concept. I finally got the perfect combination: a viscous ink and a tip with a ball that rotated freely, preventing the ink from drying out and controlling its flow. They made their invention at the Budapest International Fair in 1931 and patented it in 1938, although they were unable to commercialize it immediately. With the start of World War II, the brothers emigrated to Argentina, where they founded a company in a garage. Although it was initially unsuccessful due to the high cost of the product, it was awarded a contract with the British Air Force, which increased its popularity. In 1943, his invention was leased to Eversharp Faber, in the United States, for US$2 million. In 1950, Marcel B**h acquired the rights and, on the recommendation of a publicist, removed the "h" from his surname and founded the company BICGroup. That year they launched the first Crystal BIC, one of the most perfect designs ever created, of which more than 20 million units are sold every day around the world. Since 1953, more than 100 billion Crystal BICs have been manufactured, making it the best-selling pen of all time.

In 1913 the brothers [Abernathy] Louis [Bud] age 13, and Temple age 9, rode from Oklahoma to New York City on the Indian Motorcycle seen in the photo. This was not the Abernathy boys firs adventure.
In 1909 the two brothers, Louis “Bud” aged nine and Temple five, encountered a host of Old West obstacles, including wolves and wild rivers, when they rode more than 1,000 miles from Oklahoma to Santa Fe and back – ALONE!.
The following year (1910) the brothers set their sights on New York City, which they reached after a month of hard riding.
In the summer of 1911, they did the impossible. They rode nearly 4,000 miles, from New York to San Francisco, in only sixty-two days. Once again, the Abernathy Boys had made a historic ride without any adult assistance and accomplished an equestrian feat which has never been equaled

Live Mannequin Megan bringing to life the Iconic Fifties as she models this dress she just purchased @ Antique Mercantile , 226 Main Ave. Brookings
💃Stop by & Find Unique Vintage Clothes, Hats, Jewelry..etc. Mon-Sat 11-5:00

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Meet Kris & Austin from Greensburg, Pennsylvania visiting ANTIQUE MERCANTILE today, on their extensive 13,000 mile Road Trip.....getting Car Service & a Quick Shave. ( Notice purchases😊) After visiting the state of SD, they will have toured every state to the East of the Missouri River. Both Kris & Austin wholeheartedly said, " The Midwest has definitely been our most welcoming and pleasant experience." They felt welcomed in our Brookings community. 🌟