It is not reassuring to see, on a closer glance, that most of the houses are deserted and falling to ruin, and that the broken-steepled church now harbours the one slovenly mercantile establishment of the hamlet.
22.
Meusebach opened a mercantile establishment that evolved into a stage stop and the area's community gathering place, where he survived a gunshot wound to the leg, inflicted by trouble makers during the Mason County Hoo Doo War.
23.
As a young man Stokes started his career working in the family business, Phelps, Dodge & Company, a mercantile establishment founded by his grandfather Phelps By the time that Stokes joined the company it had become a mining business.
24.
He went on to issue instructions, as a guide to the Committee, which included a general description of Singapore Town, the ground reserved by the government, the European town and principal mercantile establishments and the native divisions and " " kampungs " ".
25.
From about 1865, Charles W . Nibley had worked as a clerk for Rosenbaum in Rosenbaum's mercantile establishment, and it was as a result of this employment that Nibley met Rosenbaum's sister-in-law Rebecca Neibauer, whom Nibley latter married.
26.
To protect themselves and their traditions, the vendors have persuaded a member of the city council, Wanete Carvalho, to sponsor an ordinance that would prohibit the manufacture or sale of acaraje by any " mercantile establishment, " including shopping centers, restaurants and bars.
27.
At one time, Greenfield had a railway depot, passenger train service, five general mercantile establishments, two churches, a hotel, a saw mill, a cotton gin, flour mill, and numerous personal residences, though today, only the churches and houses remain.
28.
It was incorporated as a city of the second class, and in 1910 had some of the largest zinc smelters in the world, two banks, an opera house, several good mercantile establishments, a newspaper, and all the municipal improvements usually found in cities of that class.
29.
The store considered itself " the peer of all mercantile establishments on the Hudson River and the most complete store of its kind in any city in the U . S . the size of Poughkeepsie . " Their advertisements claimed to have the equivalent of 30 stores under one roof, 175 sales clerks and 2 miles ( 3.2 km ) of counter space.
