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A general store trading at 26 East Main Street in Berryville since December 2024, in the building of Coiner's Department Store. The business and the building are separate things, and this record is about the business.
A general store trading at 26 East Main Street in Berryville since December 6, 2024, in the building of Coiner's Department Store — which Emmett G. Coiner founded in 1896 and Chet Hobert later ran. The business and the building are separate things.
Coiner Grand Emporium opened at 26 East Main Street in Berryville on December 6, 2024, in the building of Coiner's Department Store, which Emmett G. Coiner founded in 1896 and Chet Hobert later ran1. The store name signals continuity with a 128-year-old Berryville institution; the actual continuity is of premises rather than business. A general store whose name carries the earlier one, in the earlier one's building, but not the earlier one's ownership or trading register.
One claim establishes the new store's opening date, its address, and the through-line — a Berryville building continuously used as a general store from 1896 into the present. Missing from the corpus: the identities of the current proprietors, the trading register, the inventory, and the pre-2024 chain of businesses in the building between Coiner's Department Store and the Emporium. A local business-licence lookup and a first-person profile in Clarke Monthly would open all of it.
Coiner Grand Emporium opened at 26 East Main Street in Berryville on December 6, 2024, in the building of Coiner's Department Store, which Emmett G. Coiner founded in 1896 and Chet Hobert later ran.
The opening date and the building's earlier trade.
The January 2025 issue reports an opening on December 6, which is therefore December 2024: a 2024 event the county read about in 2025, and it is dated here to when it happened. The business, the building and the earlier store are three different things; nothing here establishes ownership of the building or a legal successor to the department store.
Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly · 2025-01 (publication)
Locator: page 2
Relevant passageOn December 6, Coiner Grand Emporium had its grand opening.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly · 2025-01 (publication)
Locator: page 2
Relevant passageCoiner's Department Store was founded by Emmett G. Coiner in 1896 and later purchased by Chet Hobert, who ran it until its shutdown almost a century later.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Coiner Grand Emporium opened at 26 East Main Street in Berryville on December 6, 2024, in the building of Coiner's Department Store, which Emmett G. Coiner founded in 1896 and Chet Hobert later ran.
Coiner Grand Emporium opened at 26 East Main Street in Berryville on December 6, 2024, in the building of Coiner's Department Store, which Emmett G. Coiner founded in 1896 and Chet Hobert later ran.
The opening date and the building's earlier trade.
The January 2025 issue reports an opening on December 6, which is therefore December 2024: a 2024 event the county read about in 2025, and it is dated here to when it happened. The business, the building and the earlier store are three different things; nothing here establishes ownership of the building or a legal successor to the department store.
Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly · 2025-01 (publication)
Locator: page 2
Relevant passageOn December 6, Coiner Grand Emporium had its grand opening.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The passage the statement rests on.
Clarke Monthly · 2025-01 (publication)
Locator: page 2
Relevant passageCoiner's Department Store was founded by Emmett G. Coiner in 1896 and later purchased by Chet Hobert, who ran it until its shutdown almost a century later.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-monthly. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
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What the evidence says One year of a county, read from the twelve 2025 issues of its own monthly paper.