Truman's First Job

"It was in the Clinton's Drugstore that Harry S. Truman obtained his first job at three dollars a week. He opened the store every morning at six thirty, mopped the floor, cleaned away the trash, polished the jugs and bottles, worked at the fountain, and clerked."

[Quoted in] Independence & 20th Century Pioneers

by Pearl Wilcox

Marker is at the intersection of Maple Avenue and Main Street, on the left when traveling east on Maple Avenue.

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