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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
eside the railroad. It had his shop in the rear end and a little store in front, with an array of gaily colored boxes on its shelves for about a year, when Joseph Leach came in with him and began to sell shoes. One Bixby opened a barber's shop in the front corner of the Mystic Hall tenement, and a lodge of Knights of Honor mainly occupied Mystic Hall, and for a time the Royal Conclave of Knights and Ladies. Daniel Lynah had a plumber's shop in the basement of the four-story block, and Crosby's old hen-house was moved next to it and stood there several years with various tenants, mostly cobblers. After a time Poole & Leach moved their building beside it, as a new-comer had leased the angular corner it had occupied and erected a two-story building with flat roof and an ell of one story, and managed to squeeze four stores and an upper hall into it. Foster & Pierce opened a grocery and William Hixon an upholstery room in this. Edward Shaw bought a lot beside Whitmore brook and