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1928, Twentieth Anniversary story — Missourian history on the store's first 20 years
1937 Boss ad campaign — John Boss worked for the Flentge general store that Buckners bought for the location in 1907. His then 30 years with BR were the basis for this Depression era campaign.
1957, explanation on BR-Missourian realtionship — a long, symbiotic relationship with the Naeters. Paper page 8, frame 5
Fred Lynch's blog article — Fred Lynch, photographer for the Southeast Missourian, wrote this in his blog accompanied by the 1955 Fronabarger photograph.
link to RELL site — Photos and stories of REL Lamkin, the heart and soul of the Buckner-Ragsdale Company, and from the Marquette to TWIKA one of Cape Girardeau's major boosters.