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Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:10 PM

Photo courtesy of the Franklin County Historical Society


The O.L. Hankin Drug store, 134 S. Main St., at center left, had the original soda fountain that W. F. “Bud” and Helena Kramer replaced when they bought the store Jan. 1, 1950, and renamed it Kramer Drug. The First National Bank is pictured on the left in this photo from the late 1920s to early 1930s. The shared south wall between the businesses collapsed Nov. 30, 1956.

Times of crisis leave big impact on drug store

By BRIAN WILLIAMS, Herald Staff Writer

A couple of weeks off can be a good thing, if it’s planned.

A year after W.F. “Bud” and Helena Kramer bought the drug store at 134 S. Main St., the flood of 1951 in July caused the store to shut its doors for a week.

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