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1883
The coal dealers: Farr's directory gives coal its own heading, and five firms stand under it: Chapin, E. P., 132 s Michigan; Lane, H. & J. W., 117 n Main; Smith, Charles T., 219 s Michigan; Stephens, Reece, 312 s Chapin; and Toepp & Goetz, 306 n Michigan. The trade stands at the directory's size — five yards selling the fuel the city's furnaces and stoves burned — and no course for any of the five was traced. They are printed because the heading was swept and the heading was not empty.
No transfer heading: The directory carries no heading for transfer or storage companies in 1883, and the absence is printed as a finding: the function was served by other trades. Under Express Companies it lists two national houses with city offices — the American, at 138 n Michigan, and the United States, at 136 n Michigan. And the hauling of the horse age stood under Livery Stables and again under Sale and Feed Stables, the same seven names under both: Coquillard, Benjamin, 138 s Michigan; Hatch, Daniel, 202 e Jefferson; Hodge, Levi W., on Centre Street; Ireland & Son, 232 n Michigan; Miller, A. W., 316 w Jefferson; Shickey, Patrick, on w South near the St. James Hotel; and Strayer, Jacob & Son, on n Michigan.
Sources:
- Farr's South Bend City Directory for 1883, Classified Business Directory — the Coal Dealers, Express Companies, Livery Stables, and Sale and Feed Stables headings, read in full; and the absence of any transfer or storage heading in the classified list of pp. 241–256.