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This store on Front street was where it all began for the Deacon Brothers. The store specialized in menswear and was opened by the grandfather of the present generation of owners. . A 1943 advertisement shows a promotion for one of the many war-time garments manufactured by the Deacon Shirt Company and a following 1945 advertisement shows how such items were later used as a marketing .tool. -