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His mother, the former Lily Lazelle, ran a millinery shop.

His father, Joseph, a real estate developer, was an immigrant from Hungary; his mother worked in a millinery shop.

There, his father was a paymaster of the local police district, and his mother ran a small dressmaking and millinery shop, which she later expanded into a general store.

The store was founded by French-speaking American designer Henri Willis Bendel in 1895 as a millinery shop in Greenwich Village before relocating to the corner of 5th Avenue and 57th Street in 1912.

Stroll along Royal Street, where you'll find at galleries, souvenir shops and boutiques, including Fleur de Paris (523 Royal St.), a colorful custom millinery and couture shop that boasts of being the largest millinery shop in the country.

In the gallery hangs Degas's largest painting on this theme, "The Millinery Shop" (1879), which shows a woman sitting at a table surrounded by six hats, and in the same room a late-19th-century bonnet embellished with ribbon, bows, and silk flowers looks as though it was plucked directly from the painting.

After a fire burned down a millinery shop which Bendel had established in Morgan City, Louisiana, he and his wife Blanche moved to New York City. However, Blanche Bendel soon died childless, and Henri never remarried.Louisiana Historical Association . Remaining in New York, Henri Bendel was able to use his fashion designing skills to develop a very successful millinery shop on Ninth Street in Greenwich Village, that catered to the city's wealthy.

Early businesses included the Granger store, a blacksmith shop and saloon, a millinery shop, a saddle and harness shop, and an oil mill. Brick buildings came in 1875.

The Millinery Shop (1879/86) is a painting by French artist Edgar Degas. It depicts a woman sitting at a display table in a millinery shop, appearing to closely examine or work on a lady's hat, which she holds in her hands. The view of the scene is at an angle from above. Although Degas created several paintings concerning milliners, this painting is his "largest and only 'museum scale work' on this subject".

Dina Zingler (b. 1902), daughter of Moshe-Mordechai Monsohn (b. 1902), travelled with her father to Beirut to study hat-making and ran a successful millinery shop in the center of Jerusalem.

Sam York's grocery store, located to the east of the Parsons residence, was built in 1890. Like the Parsons' residence, it too is now gone. Adelaide Abbott's millinery shop, located to the east of York's.

In 1871, Mitchell married Jordan Jackson, a successful businessman in Lexington, Kentucky. Jackson was an undertaker and livery owner. After her marriage, she owned a millinery shop in Lexington, located at 9 South Mill Street. The couple adopted two children.

Walker Rockwell was a brick mason. Rockwell and his wife also operated a boarding house. B. E. Dark operated a general store in a building, which had been moved to Linby. A millinery shop was on the top floor of the store building.

Afterward, she returned to Chaska to run a dressmaking business. That business operated for twelve years. In 1898, Schmitt opened her own dressmaking and millinery shop in Waconia. Four years later, she moved the shop to a prime location on Main Street after purchasing the A. Ed. Kauder property for $2,300.

Other businesses established in the town during its years of growth include a pool hall, barber shop, livery stable and millinery shop. Foundations are still visible where some of the early buildings were located. New homes were built as the population increased. This brought about the need for a church.

Verna was married twice: first to Laurence Lindon, with whom she had two children Ouida and Lionel. Ouida studied design in Paris, and later opened a millinery shop in Beverly Hills, and Lionel became a Cinematographer. Verna's second marriage was to cameraman Charles P. Boyle. Both marriages ended in divorce.

In her youth O'Flaherty lived in Limerick but her secondary schooling was in Mount Anville Secondary School and Alexandra College. When she had finished school O'Flaherty went to Paris to study millinery. It was there she met and made friends with Constance Markievicz. She then opened a millinery shop in London.

Curtis was born in London in December 1923 to Eastern European Jewish immigrants Ada and Manny Brown. Her mother and aunt operated a millinery shop. Curtis was raised in Upper Street, Islington. When the Second World War broke out, she was evacuated to Somerset and came into contact with the Workers' Educational Association.

Millinery is sold to women, men and children, though some definitions limit the term to women's hats. Webster's New World Dictionary, 4th ed. (1999), also limits millinery to women's hats. Historically, milliners, typically women shopkeepers, produced or imported an inventory of garments for men, women, and children and sold these garments in their millinery shop.

The first courthouse was built in 1796 and served until 1827 when it was sold at public auction. The first floor was then used as a millinery shop and residence while the second had an assembly room. In 1845, it was sold again to the Temperance Hall Association and burned down on April 28, 1891.

Demorest was born November 15, 1824 in Schuylerville, New York. She was the second of eight children born to Electra Abel Curtis and Henry D. Curtis. Her father was a farmer and the owner of a men's hat factory. At eighteen, Demorest set up a millinery shop in Saratoga Springs with the help of her father.

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture obtained Reeves' collection of vintage hats, and antique furniture from her millinery shop, in addition to other personal items, in 2009. In 2016 the museum opened with a permanent exhibit of Reeves' extensive collection, including the shop's original red-neon sign, sewing machine, and antique furniture.

Elizabeth was born to the family of Israel Sadoques and Mary Watso, Abenaki Indians. Originally from Odanak Reserve, in Quebec, Canada, the family migrated to Keene, New Hampshire in 1880, where they operated a basketmaking and tannery business. Elizabeth had 5 sisters, Mary, Ida, Margaret, Agnes, and Maude. Margaret owned and operated a millinery shop in Keene until 1961.

She left Australasian in 1928 to work with Lacey Percival, where she'd spend the subsequent 18 years. She also did contract work for Automatic Film Laboratories during this period. She retired from editing after a lengthy illness in 1947, and opened her own millinery shop. She later married Keith Murray, who she had known for years.

The Fuerste House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The two-story brick structure was built about 1870 in the vernacular Greek Revival style. with The screened-in porch on the west side was enclosed at some point. Mrs. L. Fuerst operated a millinery shop on the first floor of the family residence by at least 1891.

About 1925 the building was raised up on a new brick foundation. It has been used as millinery shop, a furnace display room, a magistrate's office, a craft shop, a lunch counter and a weight-loss clinic. When it was threatened with destruction in the 1980s, local residents fought to preserve the building and list it on the National Register.

This was a new CDP for the 2010 census. The community is named for James W. McDade, a major stockholder in the Houston and Texas Central Railroad in 1869. The McDade Independent School District serves area students. McDade was, for several years, the childhood home of 1950s television and recording star Gale Storm, as her mother owned a millinery shop in McDade.

Chicago: Windmill Publications, 1881. Darlington was first organized in 1849, but was known for a long time as the town of Centre. The first town meeting was held on April 3, 1849, with 82 votes being cast. The first store was built in 1848. Two more were started in 1851, a millinery shop run by Miss Graham and a store run by Mr. Driver.

He served as a member of the first Nanaimo City Council in 1875. He worked twenty years as pit head for a mine operated by the Vancouver Coal Company. Later in life, he assisted his wife with the management of her millinery shop. He died after falling from a wharf behind the shop while the tide was out, apparently investigating a noise from the shop.

Thomas Tull IV (1750-1818) created the settlement, which became known as Tulls Corner. He owned a grist mill and became an extensive farmer and ship owner. At that time, the settlement consisted of several homes, three or four stores, a post office, shoe shop, blacksmith shop, tannery, grist mill, and a nearby school and church. Later a saloon, millinery shop, barrel factory, tomato cannery and other businesses were added.

The first floor contained a restaurant and a barbershop, and later a millinery shop occupied one of the storefronts. The building also served briefly as a polling place for precinct four in local elections. Edward Mitchell was the first proprietor of the hotel, and he sold the building within a year after opening. In 1974 Good Medicine Natural Foods opened in the building, followed by Natural Foods Cafe.

By this time Gate had 2 livery stables, a hotel, barber shop, pool hall, harness shop, grocery, real estate, hardware stores, bank, doctor's office and drug store, Masonic hall, numerous churches, furniture store, funeral home, bakery, U.S. Land office, millinery shop, lumber yard, two black smiths and a feed mill. When the railroad bypassed the town, the businessmen moved the town to the railroad, the present site of Gate.

Siddall showed her own drawings to Walter Deverell's father in 1849, while she was working at a dressmakers and millinery shop in Cranbourne Alley, London. Deverell's father suggested that she should model for Walter. She was employed as a model by Deverell and through him was introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites. Though she was later touted for her beauty, Siddall was originally chosen as a model because of her plainness.

The town was incorporated on March 24, 1891, with a population of 156. The early businesses consisted of a hardware store, grocery store, a drug store, a foundry and blacksmith, a newspaper office, hotel, a livery stable, tavern, dry goods store, millinery shop, a photographer, opera house, and a bank. Catholic church services began in the fall of 1888. St. Joseph's Catholic Church was erected the next year.

During the Easter Rising she was part of the group known as basket women carrying messages through the city by bicycle. She remained friends with many of her nationalist acquaintances for the rest of her life. After the rising O'Flaherty returned to Achill. Her life in Paris and London, where for a time she had had a millinery shop, meant she had made a significant number of connections in artistic circles.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 1982. The house was originally located at 102 East Water Street, but is now located at 458 Jefferson Street. At one time, the property included multiple barns, pasture, and a vegetable garden in addition to the current house, Big Holly Cabin and the millinery shop. The Mauldin house has previously been known as the Little Pink Cottage.

Birotteau is flattered by the proposal and accepts the offer, forgetting that he is already engaged to Virginie, who owns a millinery shop in the town. Meanwhile, the caïd's steward and factotum, Ali- Bajou, has a different plan afoot to protect his master. He fosters a passionate romance between Fathma and Michel, the drum-major of the occupying French army. When Michel and Virginie hear of Birotteau's deal with the caïd, they are furious.

After its establishment, the community eventually grew to have a general store, two blacksmiths, a carriage maker, two physicians, a hotel, a flour mill, a millinery shop and three churches. At the end of the 1800s, Beaverlick had around 50 residents. As time went on, the community's population dwindled, and today, "not much is left of this small village..." "...except historic houses, churches and cemeteries." Beaverlick is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area.

The district is the old commercial heart of town around the junction of Dickason Blvd and James St, including many cream brick buildings built by Richard Vanaken and Henry Boelte. Notable buildings include the 1852 Corner Drug, the 1858 Italianate Whitney Hotel, the 1865 First National Bank (restyled Neoclassical in 1916), the 1892 Richardsonian Romanesque Hotel Tremont, and the 1903 Bonnett's Millinery Shop. The district includes the work of Louis Sullivan. It was featured in the 2009 film Public Enemies.

In 1928, James left Chicago for Long Island with 70 cents, a Pierce Arrow, and a number of hats as his only possessions. He later opened a millinery shop above a garage in Murray Hill, Queens, New York, beginning his first dress designs. At the time, he presented himself as a "sartorial structural architect". By 1930, he had designed the spiral zipped dress and the taxi dress ("so easy to wear it could be slipped on in the backseat of a taxi").

After the war Gray and Sugawara returned to Paris. In 1917, Gray was hired to redesigning the Rue de Lota apartment of society hostess Juliette Lévy. Also known as Madame Mathieu Levy, Juliette owned the fashion house and millinery shop. The Jean Desert shopfront The Rue de Lota apartment has been called "the epitome of Art Deco." A 1920 issue of Harper's Bazaar describes the Rue de Lota apartment as ‘thoroughly modern although there is much feeling for the antique’.

She manages the spotlight, then becomes an actor in the various plays and musicals they put on. Her closest friend at this point in her life, is a gay man named Mr. Cecil. Mr. Cecil, whose last name was never revealed, was a well known hat designer who happened to own a millinery shop in Hattiesburg. Mr. Cecil also served as the costume designer for the theater and he is often seen with his ten male cohorts called the "Cecilettes".

In a long shot of an Indian village way out West, all of the tepees have TV antennas, and some of the tepees are shops displaying Indian-made wares and merchandise. In the foreground is a millinery shop with a window full of feathered hats and coats, etc.; in the rear is a barber shop, complete with revolving barber pole. We discover Woody Woodpecker in the barber's chair reading a magazine, with Indian barber Buzz Buzzard stropping the blade of a tomahawk.

At this time, the village also boasted a bakery, a millinery shop, and a couple of taverns on top of the preexisting mills. Two general stores were in operation, as well as a blacksmith shop, tinsmith, livery stable and a marble works. Farran's Point was originally home to two churches; a Roman Catholic church called St. Francis of Assissi Church, and St. John's Presbyterian Church. St. John's church was established around the 1870s; this church was a donation from a C. C. Farran.

She was the daughter of Jewish parents, Aron van Dijk and Kaatje Bin. She married Bram Querido in 1927, and they separated in 1935. After the marriage ended, she began a lesbian relationship with a woman named Miep Stodel, and opened a millinery shop called Maison Evany in Amsterdam. The shop was closed by the Nazis in 1941 as part of their seizure of Jewish property—Jews were forbidden to own businesses or work in retail shops, amongst other occupational restrictions.

The remodelling of the State Theatre left it structurally intact but altered its appearance, "dispensing with the arches and pediments and imposing a simple restrained facade". The alterations included the entrance to the picture garden, and made provision for a grocery store on the corner, a millinery shop, and refreshments in the cinema vestibule. Leighton's Art Deco design introduced the Mayan flower to the Theatre. The Art Deco theme runs from the Main Auditorium through the external facades to Beaufort and Walcott Streets.

The Eckert House is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. The two-story brick structure was built in 1860 by Henry Eckert. with It is a combination commercial and residential building that features an off- square layout, metal "S" beam hardware on the north wall that was used to accommodate its unique shape, and metal numbers on the exterior that date the structure, which is not the norm in Guttenberg. Ida Eckert operated a millinery shop in first floor commercial space.

A fire destroyed much of Gilman's business district in 1922, but it rebuilt. During the same period, the village of Polley had grown two miles to the south, also on the SM&P; line. It had a school, a hotel-saloon, a general store, a forty-man sawmill, a barber, a cheese factory, a millinery shop, and a newspaper. But the SM&P; shut down in the 1930s and Polley declined until today only a bar and some homes and farms remain, while Gilman survives.

In 1934 Reeves moved to Philadelphia to work at a women's clothing shop on South Street. She created many hats while employed there, but her dream was to open her own hat shop, which she did in 1942. Reeves received a $500 bank loan from Citizens and Southern Bank, and at the age of 28 she opened "Mae's Millinery Shop," located at 1630 South Street. By so doing she became one of the first African American women to own her own business in downtown Philadelphia.

The shop and house were put up for sale in the 1913 by the castle estate along with the Castle Hotel and the Myddleton Arms, which were purchased by Mr William Owen. His lease expired in 1919 with Mr Jones transferring to what is now Gayla House, where he converted the ground floor from residential to retail premises in 1923. The premises are now owned by HSBC Bank. ;Exmewe House Formerly the Beehive, which served for 75 years as general drapery and millinery shop.

At one time it had a hotel, a ladies emporium, a small mall owned by D.R. Smith, a jewelry store and chocolate shop combination, a millinery shop, and several grocery stores. A small house was converted into a silent movie theater, and they had an auditorium for local plays called the "Arbor". The bank was robbed in 1927 by Bill Payne and Wash Turner. They were not caught after the robbery, but much later (after a life of crime) they were convicted out in the western states.

The defense interrogated twenty two additional witnesses, including Earnest H. Cheetham and Thomas Ridley, Boston citizens who described the rumors about Hanson's guilt, Albert G. Leach, Hanson's brother-in-law and Mr. Coolidge, the local jailor who had once imprisoned the late Mr. Kinney for unpaid debts. On December 25, 1840, Hannah Hanson Kinney was acquitted of the murder charge and released from prison. The jury took a total of three minutes to deliberate on a verdict. She sold off her millinery shop to cover her late husband's gambling debts, which totaled $2,000.

24 Within a few years, Cardiff grew even larger. The mine employed about 500 miners, and the population of the town was estimated to be 2,000 to 2,500 people. The town had two banks, two grain elevators, a soft-drink bottling plant, a candy factory and at least two dance halls. There were business such as clothing stores, two meat markets, two bakeries, several barber shops, a millinery shop, two livery stables, several general stores, a pharmacy, two blacksmith shops, two ice houses, and a real estate and insurance office.

"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979"; database with transcription, FamilySearch, Eugene A. Ebert and Mary Theadora Starbuck, 20 September 1877, Forsyth County, North Carolina, State Archives of North Carolina; digital file number 007620163-000899597, Family History film 899,597. Retrieved on March 8, 2017. Eugene worked as a dry goods merchant, likely in his father's millinery shop."Tenth Census of the United States, 1880"; database with transcription, FamilySearch, Eugene Ebert, Salem Chapel, Forsyth County, North Carolina; digital file number 005161763-00384, page 29, line 17, Family History film 1,254,963, National Archives publication number T9-0963.

Warren-Davis (as called herself) as treasurer, and Warren as vice president.Poston, "The Inside Story," A-4. While involved with the day-to-day operations of the newspaper, Warren also continued with her millinery shop, which in September 1923 moved to 2293 Seventh Avenue, just below West 135th Street."Odessa's Hat Salon Off to a Flying Start," The Amsterdam News, 19 September 1923, 11 Also during this time, she remarried, to Roy Francis Morse (1898-1971), who worked as a Deputy Collector for the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

When Charley was only five, his mother decided to move the family from the Lower East Side to Harlem, a more ethnically mixed section that still contained many Jews. Charley grew up poor and struggling in a neighborhood where children from different races and religions often competed in the streets to get by. Rosenberg was working as an errand boy for a millinery shop when co-worker Phil Rosenberg had to pull out of a scheduled match. He won his bout substituting for Phil Rosenberg, and subsequently took his name as his ring moniker.

Royce operated a grocery store from the site and in 1907 a fire started in the neighbouring Opera House. The local fire company responded to the fire, pumping water from a nearby stream. The Opera House, a private home and a millinery shop were destroyed, but the Ludlam Building and the Post Office were saved with only scorching. Shortly after this fire Royce sold the building to the Kursman brothers, who ran a dry goods and clothing store. The Kursman’s, later joined by David Bernstein, continued with their business into the 1930s.

The 1860 census listed > some 240 people living in Pittsville. Farming and stock raising were the > main occupations, but also listed were wagoners, carpenters, schoolteachers, > a brick mason, an engineer, a minister, a merchant, a clerk, a physician, a > wheelwright, a machinist, an artesian-well borer, and other workers. As the > years passed the town had several general stores, as well as a blacksmith > shop, a millinery shop, a photo studio, and a two-story school or academy. > Pittsville acquired a post office on May 31, 1870, with Mrs.

Pocahontas Historic District is a national historic district located at Pocahontas in the Pocahontas coalfield, Tazewell County, Virginia. It is near Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine, a U.S. National Historic Landmark which was Mine No. 1 of the Pocahontas coalfield. The district encompasses 17 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the town of Pocahontas. Notable buildings include the City Hall (1895), the stone Episcopal Methodist Church, Catholic Church, the old brick medical dispensary, a Synagogue, the first millinery shop in the coalfields (now the Emma Yates Memorial Library) and a Masonic Hall.

Salt was manufactured at Big Bone Lick during the early 1800s, and was brought to Union for distribution to other area settlements. A post office was in operation by 1850, and at some point there was a Millinery Shop located next to the post office. The Union Presbyterian Church was built next to that in 1870. A bank was built in the city in 1905, and a large two-story general store was located on the corner of Mt. Zion Road and what eventually became U.S. Highway 42 (now Old Union Rd).

Despite that social circumstance, Boy Capel perceived the businesswoman innate to Coco Chanel and, in 1910, financed her first independent millinery shop, Chanel Modes, at 21 rue Cambon in Paris. Because that locale already housed a dress shop, the business-lease limited Chanel to selling only millinery products, not couture. Two years later, in 1913, the Deauville and Biarritz couture shops of Coco Chanel offered for sale prêt-à-porter sports clothes for women, the practical designs of which allowed the wearer to play sports. The First World War (1914–18) affected European fashion through scarcity of materials, and the mobilisation of women.

In 1948 Carter won a talent contest conducted by Al Benson, a disc jockey (dee jay) at Chicago's WGES radio station. The prize was an opportunity to host a fifteen-minute segment on WGES, which launched her radio career. Carter worked at WGES for three months, but struggled financially and returned to Gary to work in a local millinery shop until she landed a job at WJOB (AM) in Hammond, Indiana. In 1952 Carter moved to WGRY and in 1954 to WWCA in Gary, where she hosted the "Livin' with Vivian" show six nights a week.

Their homestead was adjacent to what is now the Austonio Baptist Church on State Highway 21 in Austonio, Texas.Texas Historical Commission, Historic Marker, Autonio, Texas Collin Aldrich (1801–1842) was a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto and was the first judge in Houston County, having served during the Republic of Texas from 1837–1841.Texas Historical Commission, Historic Marker, Houston County, State Highway 21 Eli Coltharp established his Coltharp Hill in Houston County near Kennard. The store, post office, gristmill, cotton gin, blacksmith shop, and millinery shop were located on the stagecoach route west of Nacogcoches in Houston County.

In 1793, Stephen and Daniel Burritt, from Arlington, Vermont, settled in the vicinity of the area now known as Burritt's Rapids. A plaque was erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board commemorating the founding of Burritt's Rapids. By 1812, Burritts Rapids had become a bustling hamlet. At the peak of its prosperity, it had telegraphic and daily mail, 2 general stores, a bakery, a millinery shop, 2 shoe shops, a tin and stove store, a grist mill, a woolen mill, a tannery, 3 blacksmith shops, 3 wagon shops, a cabinet shop, 2 churches, 2 schools, 2 hotels, a bank and an Orange Lodge.

In the late 1880s, Paul Bonwit opened a small millinery shop at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street in Manhattan's Ladies' Mile shopping district. In 1895, which the company often referred to as the year it was founded, Bonwit opened another store on Sixth Avenue just four blocks uptown. When Bonwit's original business failed, Bonwit bought out his partner and opened a new store with Edmund D. Teller in 1898 on 23d Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The firm was incorporated in 1907 as Bonwit Teller & Company and in 1911 relocated yet again, this time to the corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street.

The Santa Fe and U. S. Postal service accepted the name and so it stands today. At one time Capron was quite a thriving community. It had two banks; the Bank of Capron, and the Capron State Bank; three general stores; two drug stores; a hotel; depot; a millinery shop; theater; blacksmith; a weekly newspaper, The Capron Hustler; a monthly newspaper, The Screech Owl; two barber shops; hardware store; lumber yard; two churches, Warburton Memorial Methodist Church, and First Congregational Church; the Driftwood Telephone Company and Hampton's Foot Powder Factory. In April 1939 a tornado struck Capron, making a straight line down the main business street.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (Camille Corot for short) was born in Paris on July 16, 1796, in a house at 125 Rue du Bac, now demolished. His family were bourgeois people—his father was a wigmaker and his mother a milliner—and unlike the experience of some of his artistic colleagues, throughout his life he never felt the want of money, as his parents made good investments and ran their businesses well.Gary Tinterow, Michael Pantazzi, and , Corot, Abrams, New York, 1996, p. 5, After his parents married, they bought the millinery shop where his mother had worked and his father gave up his career as a wigmaker to run the business side of the shop.

In 1923 he took over Flora Ltd, a Gown & Millinery shop in Southsea renaming the business Brights (Southsea) Ltd, however by 1928 the business was no longer operational. He sold off the photography and printing business in 1924 to partner Frank Higby Oliver. In 1925 he purchased the Exeter department store Colson & Co. rebranding the store Colsons of Exeter, and in 1932 bought the Clifton department store of Bobby & Co. In 1941, however, Percy was hit by a coal lorry and died at the age of 78. After the war the Exeter store was rebuilt in 1953 and the business continued to operate as an independent company until 1960 when J J Allen took over the Brights brand.

Ambia, Store Front with the Post Office, Old Harness Shop, Barber Shop, and Millinery Shop, circa 1920 Ambia was laid out by Ezekiel M. Talbot and his wife Marietta on February 22, 1875, and named for their daughter Ambia Talbot. (The couple had two years earlier planned the nearby town of Talbot.) Its first building was a house erected by James C. Pugh which was soon joined by a grain elevator, general store and blacksmith. A drug store, hardware store, hotel, physician and a variety of other establishments followed. Ambia was a stop on the Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington Railroad (later the Lake Erie and Western) which ran between Lafayette and Hoopeston.

When one of John's late night rendezvous is witnessed by a town gossip and reported to Mike Davey, John's only political enemy, Vergie's successful millinery shop is boycotted, and she is shunned by all but the local prostitutes. In addition, Davey hires Preston's son Barry to steal from Preston's home safe a page from a hotel register on which Vergie had written her assumed name. As Barry is breaking into his father's safe, however, Preston mistakes him for a burglar and kills him, but tells his butler that a burglar shot his son. Many years later, after John has started a prosperous airline company and has been elected senator, Vergie spends her mornings watching a now grown Joan horseback riding with her fiancé, Ranny Truesdale.

The hotel received minor damage in January 1892, when the McClellan Opera House two buildings down from the hotel caught fire, destroying the opera house and the millinery shop separating it from the Hotel de Paris. In October 1900 Louis Dupuy died after a weeks-long battle with pneumonia, and the hotel passed into the ownership of Dupuy's housekeeper, Sophie Gally, who herself died not long after. In 1903 Sarah Burkholder purchased the hotel and at some point turned it into a boarding house, which she co-managed with her daughter Hazel McAdams. The Georgetown Courier called the hotel of the immediate post-Dupuy era "famous the world over" for the continued excellence of its cuisine and the comfort of its appointments.

The Century Association resulted from the merger of two earlier private clubs for men "of similar social standing or shared interests." The Sketch Club had focused on literature and the arts, while the Column Club had been a Columbia University alumni organization. The initial invitation for the combined club was sent to one hundred men, which became the basis for the name "The Century", later slightly altered to the Century Association. The club rented a variety of temporary locations in Manhattan, gravitating to the area around Union Square and Madison Square. Among these locations were over Del Vecchio's picture store at 495 Broadway, 435 Broome Street, over a millinery shop at 575 Broadway, and 24 Clinton Place (later redesignated 46 East 8th Street).

A millinery shop in Paris, 1822 During the 1820s in European and European-influenced countries, fashionable women's clothing styles transitioned away from the classically influenced "Empire"/"Regency" styles of ca. 1795–1820 (with their relatively unconfining empire silhouette) and re-adopted elements that had been characteristic of most of the 18th century (and were to be characteristic of the remainder of the 19th century), such as full skirts and clearly visible corseting of the natural waist. The silhouette of men's fashion changed in similar ways: by the mid-1820s coats featured broad shoulders with puffed sleeves, a narrow waist, and full skirts. Trousers were worn for smart day wear, while breeches continued in use at court and in the country.

She operated a millinery shop at Dunns and there she drew her plans for their home which they built at Flat Top containing twelve rooms with two long halls extending the length of the house and containing ten closets and seven fireplaces. The right side of the house had an entrance to Dr. Lilly's office for his patients and in his office he had a trap door with shelves that lowered to the basement to keep his medical supplies cool when it was not being used in days before refrigeration. The house was built in approximately 1897 and was designed to keep overnight patients who traveled long distance for treatment. Cost of building was $5,000. A History of Shady Spring District, Compiled and Published by the Shady Spring District Woman’s Club (1979).

Goudsmit was born in The Hague, Netherlands, of Dutch Jewish descent. He was the son of Isaac Goudsmit, a manufacturer of water-closets, and Marianne Goudsmit-Gompers, who ran a millinery shop. In 1943 his parents were deported to a concentration camp by the German occupiers of the Netherlands and were murdered there.Benjamin Bederson, 2008, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit 1902 — 1978, Biographical Memoir, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC, 29 pp Visualization of electron spin on a wall in Leiden Goudsmit studied physics at the University of Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1927. After receiving his PhD, Goudsmit served as a Professor at the University of Michigan between 1927 and 1946. In 1930 he co-authored a text with Linus Pauling titled The Structure of Line Spectra.

Morris was born in Pennsville, Ohio. While still a child, she moved with her family to Malta, OH. Later, she and her sister and her mother ran a millinery shop in McConnelsville, OH. In 1881, she married Charles H. Morris. The couple were active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and attended camp meetings at places such as Old Camp Sychar, Mount Vernon, OH and Sebring Camp, Sebring, OH. In the 1890s, she began to write hymns and gospel songs; it has been said that she wrote more than 1,000 songs and tunes, and that she did so while doing her housework. In 1913, her eyesight began to fail; her son thereupon constructed for her a blackboard long with oversized staff lines, so that she could continue to compose.

Freeman lived on Lafayette Street. He had at least two children: William and Jennie. Cyrus Curtis' Saturday Evening Post publishers. The millinery shop of Susan Kinghorn (located at the eastern corner of Main and Portland Streets in the building now occupied by Rosemont Market); between 1942 and 1953 [Harold B.] Allen's Variety Store, then Daken's, Romie's, Lindahl's, Donatelli's Pizza, Denucci's Pizza (briefly) and Connor's. Rufus York's general store in the 1860s and 1870s, this brick building, at 108 Main Street, is now home to Runge's Oriental Rugs Elder Rufus York's general store (located in the brick building now occupied by Runge's Oriental Rug store at 108 Main Street, on the western corner of the Portland Street intersection; later William Hutchinson Rowe's, then Melville Merrill's, then Frank W. Bucknam's Pharmacy (1894–1900).

In 1925, the City of Selfridge had 51 homes and 63 business places. It contained 2 churches, 4 schools, 3 elevators, 2 garages, 3 implement dealers, 4 filling stations, 2 welding shops, 1 long distance phone, 1 lawyer, 1 pool hall, 2 banks, 1 public hall, 1 picture show, 4 general stores, 3 grocery and meat stores, 1 blacksmith shop, 1 feed barn, 1 rooming house, 2 restaurants, 4 real estate offices, 2 oil stations, 1 hotel, 1 hardware, 1 newspaper, 1 drug store, 1 barber shop, 2 cream stations, 3 contractors, 1 painter, 2 lumber yards, 2 confectioneries, 1 millinery shop, 1 footlocker, and 1 electric, and power & light company. By 1930 the city had more than doubled its population. During the depression years of the thirties, many local men and area farmers supported their families by working on W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration).