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114 Main Street Woodcut of Reber's Post Office Book Store 1875 A
carpenter by training, Theodore L. Reber (1838 - 1912) was born in
Pennsylvania. After his first wife and 2 children died there in
the early 1860s, he married Rebecca Jane Rogers (b1841) and moved to
Burlingame, Kansas, where he opened a confectionery. In 1873 the
Reber family moved to Denison where T.L. opened a news stand and
stationery store on Main Street, "opposite Harper & Hayward's".
In December 1875 he and H.L. Pope badly wounded each other in a
gunfight said to be caused by Mrs. Reber. Later that month Mr.
Reber sold out to F.R. Brown and left Denison. In August of 1876
he returned and opened another book store at 271 W. Main, the former
location of J.A. Euper's soda fountain. Seven months later, in
March of 1877, he sold out again and moved to Deadwood, South Dakota,
where he opened a restaurant. He spent two years in Deadwood,
then traveled around the southwest for the next three decades, starting
up and selling soda water bottling plants in 50 different towns.
Eventually becoming a legend to bottle colelctors, Reber has been
called "the Johnny Appleseed of soda bottling." He died in 1912
in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Book: The Remarkable T.L. Reber 
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