Identifier: hartforditspoint00merc (find matches)
Title: Hartford and its points of interest ; illustrated from original photographs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Mercantile Illustrating Company (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York : Mercantile Illustrating Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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side of New York. Besides the general dry-goods stock, theyhandle cloaks and suits, ladies and childrens shoes, millinery, carpets, furniture, boys clothing, gents furnishings, cut flowersand candies. They have also special lines of household goods, baby carriages, toys and novelties at prices which command thepopular trade. In the balcony of their annex building is a spacious restaurant where a lunch can be had at any hour of the day.This, with the advantages of pleasant waiting and toilet rooms, makes their big store a delightful place for the shoppers, and thesensible housewives of this section of the State make regular pilgrimages to this Mecca of all retail purchasers, and the highesttestimony to the superiority of the store will be given by its thousands of regular customers. Mr. Jas. Thomson, the senior memberof the firm, is one of the oldest merchants of Hartford, and has been closely associated with its important interests throughout themost progressive period in its history.
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