Minneapolis Minnesota 1927 Hancock Nelson Mercantile Billhead 8 x 9

This 1927 billhead documents a wholesale grocery shipment issued by Hancock-Nelson Mercantile Company of Minneapolis during the late interwar expansion of packaged-food distribution.

Minneapolis and St Paul operated as the commercial engine of the Upper Midwest, with large transfer warehouses supplying small-town merchants through rail and truck networks. Wholesale grocers like Hancock-Nelson linked national brands to rural stores, standardizing credit terms, product categories, and ordering systems as consumer markets became increasingly centralized.

The document is dated December 15, 1927 and is addressed to a merchant in Somerset, Wisconsin. Line entries list staple grocery items including sugar, raisins, yeast, rolled oats, mustard, nutmeg, soap, clotheslines, and syrup, with weights and prices recorded in structured columns beneath the company masthead. Branded imagery for MJB Coffee and Tree Tea appears at the top, blending advertising with formal accounting on a commercial sheet measuring 8 x 9 inches.

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