Delicious options at Stokes & Son Lunch Goods and Confectionery, as advertised in the December 17, 1908 Skidmore New Era of Skidmore, Missouri, page 2:
Advertisement reads, “Stokes & Son, Lunch Goods and Confectionery. We take pleasure in presenting to your notice a few choice articles which we carry. In the first place, we sell Miller & Son’s Bread of Maitland. The best bread in town; in fact always fresh. We bake our own pies and guarantee the filling to be all right. We carry Loose Wiles Butter Cups, Hickory Nut, Black Walnut, Brazil Nut and Cocoa Nut Flavors. Also Fruit Drops of Cherry, Raspberry, Lime and Blackberry Shape and Flavor. Come in and buy and be convinced of their delicious quality. We also carry ten varieties National Biscuit Company’s College Chocolates. They melt in your mouth. The finest dates; the first of the season White Almeria Grapes; large and plump. And all candies usually found in a first-class confectionery. Stokes & Son.”