Morgan and Lindsey, Incorporated, operated variety chain store

Chain store

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s, which at one time had eighty-five outlets in Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, Arkansas

Arkansas

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, Louisiana

Louisiana

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, Alabama

Alabama

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, and Mississippi

Mississippi

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. Their headquarters were in Jasper

Jasper, Texas

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, Texas. It was eventually absorbed into the G. C. Murphy

G. C. Murphy

G.C. Murphy is a defunct chain of five and dime or variety stores in the United States.- Origins of chain :The chain was founded in 1906 in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, by George Clinton Murphy. Murphy had gotten his start in retail as a manager of a McCrory's store in 1896...

 Company.

The Morgan and Lindsey store in Minden

Minden, Louisiana

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, Louisiana, was relocated in 1923 to make way for a new department store

Department store

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, West Brothers, founded by H.O. West and his brothers, natives of DeRidder, Louisiana. By 1955, West had thirty-one stores in the chain. It disappeared in the late 1980s. Morgan and Lindsey continued to operate at two other locations in Minden.