• the Higginbotham's, based in Chennai, is India's oldest bookstore in existence?
• Escape from Paradise, a book which documents a Singaporean woman's divorce, was removed from bookstores and libraries in the country in 2002, even after it had been reviewed in the Singapore press?

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General store

• Lookingglass, Oregon, became nationally famous in the 1970s when a parking meter for horses was installed in front of the general store?
• Myna Potts, an historical preservationist from West Texas, converted her father's former general store into a museum dedicated to rural people of the recent past?
• the Moss, Norway-based corporation Peterson started as a general store in 1801, later expanding into packaging and paper industry via timber trade and shipping?
• the defunct Portland University in Oregon had only one building, so the school bookstore was a nearby general store?