. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. e Eastern man-ufacturers and jobbers,who, erstwhile, practicallymonopolized the trade inparts of the South andWest. Mr. Keiskerswholesale trade extends through Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia,Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and other States. His retail trade is also verylarge, and the stock exhibited at his extensive warerooms, Nos. 412 and 414 Main street,presents an unusually large variety of handsome office and household furniture, of thelatest patterns and styles. The house has also the so
. The industries of Louisville, Kentucky, and of New Albany, Indiana. e Eastern man-ufacturers and jobbers,who, erstwhile, practicallymonopolized the trade inparts of the South andWest. Mr. Keiskerswholesale trade extends through Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia,Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and other States. His retail trade is also verylarge, and the stock exhibited at his extensive warerooms, Nos. 412 and 414 Main street,presents an unusually large variety of handsome office and household furniture, of thelatest patterns and styles. The house has also the sole agency for the celebrated Plimp-ton lounge and sofa beds, and keeps a large and varied assortment of mattresses. Mr. Keisker has lived here 35 years, and, in his earlier days, was engaged in steam-boating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He next was of the firm of Wrampelmeier,Keisker & Co., furnitu-e dealers, and, in 1878, embarked in the same line for himself, andwith great success. He is also a director of the Western Bank and Western WALL, SMITH & CO., Cotton and Tobacco Factors—Gilbert Tobacco Warehouse, Nos. 219 221v 229 and 231 Eighth Street, between Main and Market. The above-named energetic and popular firm has been very successful in bringing tothis market largely increased consignments of cotton and tobacco from the productive re-gion embraced in Southern Kentucky and West Tennessee. Their experience and skillin the handling of these products give them advantages which, re-enforced by their wideand favorable personal acquaintance in the sections named, render the firm formidable ri-vals on the market, as a proof of which they last year did a business of three-quarters of amillion dollars, rendering satisfaction to buyer and seller in every transaction. Their finewarehouse—the well-known Gilbert—two stories high and 300x305 feet in area, enablesthem to ofl^er inducements seldom found, among others that of four months free storageof all c
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