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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
n 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 then-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 buig W. H. Babb opened the larger store with dry goods, and both continued in the same line. After Mr. Babb's death Poole & Leach came in. Dr. O. A. Gamage made alterations in the house at the corner of Canal street (his father bought it in 1862), while a gasoline engine in the boiler room was in use if the wind failed. Somebody got the Crosby hen-house, and Poole & Leach's shop went down to the Tuttens' stone yard on Canal street. They used it for an office for some years, and at last it wa