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and quality we believe we can suit you. 
The leading creameries of the country 
contribute to our supply and the price is 
unusually attractive for butter of first 
quality. May we send you some? 
Butter 
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In milling this flour great attention is given to preserv- 
ing all the nutriment originally found in the wheat. As 
a result this brand makes an unusually nutritious loaf. 
$1.00 bag $7.75 bbl. 
$7.50 bbl. When Taken at Our Store. 
< Boston Blend Coffee. 
Quality Never Fails to Suit 
Best Pastry Fiour 
80c bag $6.00 bbl 
$5.75 bbl When Taken at Our Store. 
If you want a 25 cent coffee of surpassing excellence you need not 
hesitate to order Boston Blend. In cans or in bulk, ground by 
electricity while you wait. 
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The Manchester Town Meeting of 
63 Years Ago. 
The following sums of money were 
voted to be raised at the annual Town 
Meeting, held March 10th and 11th, 
1845: 
For the support of schools $ 900.00 
Aaa «6 -€ Poor and other 
. Town charges 1,200.00 
For the support of M. M. L. I. Co. 20.00 
“¢ reducing the Town Debt 300.00 
$2506.40 
County Tax 368.71 
State ‘Tax 90.00 
$2,965.11 
Overlayings 41.69 
$3006.80 
Assessments. 
387 polls at $1.28 each $495.36 
Residents estates 2,467.41 
Non-Residents estates 44.03 
Total $3,006.80 
Valuation of Town. 
Real estate $265,803 
Personal estate 206,400 
Non-Residents estates 7,968 
Total valuation $480,171 
The tax rate on that year (1845) was 
54 cents on $100, or, as we would speak 
of it now $5.40 on $1000. 
Here is one instance of a tax levy in 
1845: 
House, barn and garden $400 
16 acres of tillage land 850 
6 acres of meadow land 120 
95 acres of pasture land 700 
Total value $2,070 
Tax Levy $11.21 
Just think of it: house, barn and 
garden and 117 acres of land and the 
total tax only $11.21. 
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N. P. Meldrum is advertising for ren 
the Hall cottage on Pine street, which is 
a most desirable cottage for either sum- 
mer or all the year round use. Modern 
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Essex and St. Peter Sts., 
SALE M;-MASS 
Eo Tay and district to 
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~% sample Latest Model **Ranger” bicycle furnished by us. Our agents everywhere are 
=) making money fast. Write for full particulars and special offer at once. 
os NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship 
to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. without a cent deposit in advance, prepay freight, and 
allow TEN DAYS’ FREE TRIAL during which time you may ride the bicycle and 
put it to any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to 
keep the bicycle ship it back to us at our expense and you will not be out one cert. 
FACTORY PRICES We furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible to make 
: at one small profit above actual factory cost. You save $10 
to $25 middlemen’s profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer’s guar- 
antee behind your bicyclee DO NOT BUY a bicycle ora pair of tires from anyone 
at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory 
brices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. 
You WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and 
. study our superb models at the wonderfully 
low prices we can make yeu this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money 
meee than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. 
BICYCLE DEALERS, you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at 
our prices. Orders filled the day received. 
i SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but 
“7 usually have a. number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out 
promptly at prices ranging from $3 to #8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. 
ingle wheels, i ted roller chains 2 ‘dais ee 
COASTER-BRAKES, eocbusent otvall Linds at kas? the usual reted Ore ne oartan: Tewetea aaa 
50 HEDGETHORN PUNCTURE-PROOF $f 
SELF-HEALING TIRES 4, S3M25,242% 
: The regular retail price of these tires ts 
= $8.50 per pair, but to introduce we will 
seliyouasample pair for $4.80(cash with order $4.55). 
NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES 
NAILS, Tacks or Glass will not let the — 
air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. 
Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use, 
DESGRIPTIGN: Made inall sizes. Itislively 
and easy riding, very durableand linedinside with 
a special phase of rubber, which never becomes 
porous and which closes up small punctures without allow- 
ing theairtoescape. We have hundreds of letters from satis- 
fiedcustomers stating that their tires haveonly been pumped 
up once ortwice ina wholeseason. They weigh nomorethan 
an ordinary tire, the puncture resin apelice Ree given , 
by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the Saw = a 
tread. Theregular price of these tiresis$8.50perpair,butfor [f Seen rig a, TIC aud 
advertising purposes weare making a special factory price to - < bak 
the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. 0. D. on 
approval. You do not pay acent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. 
We willallow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price #4.55 per pair) if you 
send FULL CASH WITH ORDER aid enclose this advertisement. We will also send one 
nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are 
not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to usisassafeas in a 
bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, 
wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We 
know that you will beso well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. 
We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. 
YOU NEED TIRES don’t buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of 
GF Hedgethorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at 
the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which 
describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. 
NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle 
DO or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful 
offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. 
J. L. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ILL. 
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and “0D,” also rim strip “H” 
to prevent rim cutting. This 
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