Paper receipts merchants were required to buy from the state and give to consumers when the merchants charged them state sales tax. Consumers were encouraged to collect the receipts and give them to schools or charities. These organizations could then turn them in to the state and collect three per cent of the face value.
Dinner Menu for the First Anniversary Camp Shawnee No. 2, Company 1520 - S51A, Portsmouth, Ohio.. The young men enrolled in the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps.) program in Shawnee Forest are also listed.
Green red or green/brown paper stamps required by merchants to buy from the state and provide to customers when they were charged state tax. Consumers were encouraged to collect them and give them to the schools or charity. Then organizations would cash them into the state for 3% face value.
"Directory of Portsmouth, Ohio, and Scioto County,
August, 1897.
Published by the American Directory Company, Lodi, O.
Compiled by A.G. Selders and J.D. Carpenter,
Price $3.00
Colorized image of Gallia Square in Portsmouth. Government Square, or Gallia Square, or Upper Market Square, or the Esplanade where Gallia Street meets Chillicothe Street. The Kricker Building shows through the trees at the left. Built by George Kricker in 1893, it held the Portsmouth City Offices, a bank, grocery, jewelry, business college and other businesses.
Colorized image of a woman with butterfly wings outlined like an orange Monarch butterfly. Each of her four wings is a different building in Portsmouth.
1. The Grimes Hotel located at the corner of Second (2nd) and Gallia/ Gay Streets.
2. The Public Library located at 1220 Gallia Street.
3. The Highland School located on Hutchins Street Across From Mound Park.
4. The Washington located at the corner of Market and Second (2nd) Streets.
Colorized image of Crichton's Inn, owned and operated by William Crichton. The Inn was located on a hill on the west side of Route 104 near the Norfolk & Western Railway passenger station in Rushtown in Rush Township north of Portsmouth. It closed in 1919. Below the image is a paragraph about the hospitality of the people of Portsmouth.
