Scan 6
Miller's Shelby, N.C., City Directory [1937/1938], 1937
20 lines. Read by computer on 13 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1INTRODUCTION (cont’d)
3mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community.
5THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE begins with page 281. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order; the residences and business houses are arranged numerically under the name of each street and avenue, and the names of householders, with the number of occupants, and business concerns are placed opposite the numbers.
7MUNICIPAL PUBLICITY
9The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information over the country, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the directory in Directory Libraries, which are maintained in all the chief cities of the country. Here they are readily available for free public reference and serve as perpetual advertisements of Shelby, for business men the country over realize that the city directory represents the community as it really is.
11SOUTHERN DIRECTORY CO.
12Publishers
14It Pays To Be Prominently Displayed
16To let people know WHO you are, WHERE you are and WHAT you have to sell. The City Directory keeps your name before the public 365 days in the year, and it cannot be prominently displayed in any book so CONSTANTLY used as the City Directory.
18SOUTHERN DIRECTORY CO.
19PUBLISHERS
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