Denison Daily News
January 8, 1880
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Hunger and Thirst
They Can be Appeased and Avoided

Humanity must eat to live, consequently they are continually predisposed to get hungry, and when they eat they must also drink for liquids are as necessary for the sustaining of life as solid food.  The question that naturally arises is where we can get the “goods.”  In answer to this, we would beg leave to offer a remark.
In 1876, in a very small store on Main street, near Rusk avenue, a young man, who had formerly been a clerk in one of the business houses of the city, embarked in the grocery business.  His capital was limited, but his energy was untiring and his business qualifications were of the best.  He always gave good weight, never misrepresented his goods, was polite and obliging to all, and knew the value of a judicious use of printer’s ink, consequently he made friends and his customers increased.  In about a year or so he moved into the, at that time, largest grocery store in the city and his brother went into partnership with him.  The old fogies said the firm would be bankrupt in less than three months, that they would not make expenses and prophesied all manner of evil, but instead of that their business increased, they soon opened a branch store on Main street, near Houston avenue and continued to run both stores till the latter was destroyed by fire.  Since then they have not only successful run their mains tore, but have recently established a branch store in Gainesville which is already doing an immense business.  Their success is due, more than anything else, to the fact that they have always kept everything in the grocery line that a person could want and have been willing to sell at merely a living profit and to-day O.P. Wood & Co. rank second to none in their line of business.  Their success is the best proof of the quality of their goods as well as of the reasonableness of their prices.  At the start such small bills as one sack of coffee, one barrel of sugar and one caddy of tea were the amount of one of their St. Louis orders – today they buy a car load, such an order as that not being hardly enough to supply their customers on their morning delivery.  They keep constantly on hand and for sale in bulk or retail any and everything in the grocery line, a full line of the best whiskies (sold only in quantities of a quart or over) and a well selected stock of drugs, that latter under the immediate supervision of Dr. B.K. Wood, a regular graduated physician.  Any and everything they have to sell they guarantee to be just as represented and of full weight or measure.  All goods delivered in the city free of charge.  Peruse, ponder, patronize O.P. Wood & Co., and hunger and thirst no more.