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W. A. McDONALD is the leading wholesale merchant, handling groceries and tobacco at Bay St. Louis; his jobbing territory extends all along the Gulf coast from Gulfport to New Orleans; in fact, throughout the whole of Mississippi, and even up into Tennessee he has a well established grocery
timated that his annual volume of business does not total-less than $150,000 All of his principal staples he receives in car lots; his stores and warehouses are located on the main line of the L. & N. R. K.. affording him the very best of shipping facilities. Mr. McDonald is the sole agent for
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and tobacco trade; he began business on a very small scale,	the Geo. P. Plant Milling Co., of St. Louis,	the Gulfport
with a stock of about $500, and sales of but fifty dollars per	Fertilizer Company, and Neutraline products,	besides other
day; he is reputed now to be doing the largest individual	big'll grade lines; he is prominently identified with the
grain business in the entire State, and it is conservatively es- 30 Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Association.