Maine stage driver tale of woe over contracts
A Lewiston Journal piece recalls Maine stage contractors who price out rivals and ruin mail routes. Cap’n Paine of Farmington & New Sharon defied contractors, launching a rival line after being undercut, leading to cutthroat price wars and passenger poaching.
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Maine
Lewiston Journal
Cap
Bim Paine
Farmington & New
Sharon
Renge
New Sharon
Farmington
Hin Atage
Candy dealer ad notes bargains on bicycles and chocolates
Dykeman's offers six Gents Second Hand Bicycles and a fresh stock of Lyon's chocolate cremes at 61 E Broad. D. A. Cleveland promotes bargains while they last with DeKlyn's candies and Dykeman's listed.
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D. A
Cleveland
E. Broad
Lyon’s
Dykeman's
The Deacon Williama’s Grocery Weight Trick
A Cincinnati Tribune account describes a colored grocer near the railroad depot where patrons, mostly colored, shop briskly for water tea and codfish. A deacon named Williama allegedly devised lead-filled weights to misrepresent pounds, prompting a humorous scene as the dealer weighs products at a cotton warehouse. The episode ends with a declarement to close the shop. The item sits among scattered notes on the Paris exhibition and a salon quip about Wartime and a Prohibition convention in Chicago.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Dar
Greenville
Williama
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