Bridgeport Retail Wholesale Stock Promises Cheaper Goods
One hundred years ago in Bridgeport a new wholesale and retail firm Sherman and Hayt offer a broad stock bought in New York, promising lower prices for country merchants. A circulating library by I Lockwood advertises books from divinity to romances, while a moonlit excursion by the Schuyler promises scenic travel. A steamship boiler valve burst causing a brief scare, a new building rises for Shelton and Lyons, and Simonson's Hair Work Emporium showcases a stocked iron road adjacency and front.
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Sherman & Hayt .O
State ‘No. 4
New Block
New York
Bridgeport
Messrs. Shelton
W. H. Lyons
Simonson’s Hair Work Emporium
Franklin Block
State Street
Clubs Formed to Push Recruiting in Connecticut
New Haven June 15 Do your bit clubs are being formed in several towns to aid the regular army recruiting stations in New London Waterbury Hartford and Bridgeport and to cooperate with the main station in New Haven. The clubs will receive hearty cooperation from the New Haven and other recruiting offices. The statement issued yesterday shows that Connecticut has since 1]
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New Haven
W. A. Mercer
Connecticut District
New London
Watubury
Hartford
Bridgeport
Connecticut
April 1 recruits 950 toward state quota of 2228 by June 30
The notice states 950 men recruited on April 1 leaving 1,278 needed to reach the 2,228 quota by June 30, averaging 71 recruits per day. It notes E H Dillon & Co at 1105 Main St advertising millinery and clothing bargains. Governor Whitman received LL D from Syracuse University.
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Seaview Avenue
Sansone
Raymond
Shore House
E. H. Dillon & Co
Main Street
Adv
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I. Lockwood
Schuyler
Long Island
Wheeler & Wilson
Orange Merwin
Wallace G. Taylor
The
Standard
Ernest P. Lyon
Mullins
Lyon
Florence Barnett
H. D. Cone
the Woman’s Style Store
Nirdlinger
Coats
Tore See
Emery
Tirdlinger
Main
Sprague Ice & Coal CO
E. Wash. Ave. Bridge
Hoosier
Main St
Corner Elm St
Dillon
Buckingham
Mecca
the Smith-Murray Co
Bridgeport. Com
Dillon's
Governor Whitman
Syracuse University
First Presbyterian Church
Frederick G. Coan
Persia
International Institute of Agriculture
Anatomik Shoes
W. K. Mollan
Kelly’s Cigar Store
Fairfield Ave
James H. Kelly
Frisbie’s Pies
Albert Robin
Paris
Curts Chemical Co
West
Pier Ease
Sini Y J. D. Bartsgan
Fairfield
Rivet
M. J. Gannon
John
Lence
Vine St
Lieberum & Heaphy
State Street Telephone
Barnum
Frank Polke & Son Emaelmners
Undertakers
Hancock Ave
Autor
George P. Potter
Hawley
Wilmot
Embahaces
State St
George
Washington Terrace
EL Wimot
Clinton Ave
John F. Gallagher
Margaret L Gallagher
Margaret L. Gallagher
Fairfield AV
M. G. Keane
Ord
Michael's
Cone
Greumatic
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