Interior view of a drug store in Kirkland Texas in 1908 showing two customers and two soda jerks standing ready to serve up more Coca-Cola for 5 cents a pop. Billed as the "Biggest Little City in Texas," Kirkland by the 1920s had three churches, a three-room school, and several businesses, including three grocery stores, two lumber yards, two barber shops, five filling stations, three hardware stores, and a bank. The Furr's Grocery and Cafeteria corporations had their beginning at Kirkland when Crone W. Furr opened his first mercantile store in 1905.

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