. Concord, the city beautiful; its attractions and advantages . life of the city covers, fully, all retail lines,and quite an extensive wholesale business is conducted byseveral firms in flour, grain, feed groceries, iron, lime,cement, hardware, etc. Many of the retail stores on MainStreet are model establishments, and two, at least, of the 38 Concord, the City Bealtiful. dry goods stores are equal to any to be found in New Eng-land north of Boston. It is said, to the special credit of Con-cord merchants, as a rule, that they carry a better class ofgoods than are usually found in cities of cor
. Concord, the city beautiful; its attractions and advantages . life of the city covers, fully, all retail lines,and quite an extensive wholesale business is conducted byseveral firms in flour, grain, feed groceries, iron, lime,cement, hardware, etc. Many of the retail stores on MainStreet are model establishments, and two, at least, of the 38 Concord, the City Bealtiful. dry goods stores are equal to any to be found in New Eng-land north of Boston. It is said, to the special credit of Con-cord merchants, as a rule, that they carry a better class ofgoods than are usually found in cities of corresponding size. BANKS. The banking establishments here found rank with the bestin the state or in New England, and naturally do an extensivebusiness. The three national banks have an aggregate cap-ital stock of $500,000; had, at the time of the last publishedstatement, aggregate surplus and undivided profits amount-ing to $601,; and deposits aggregating $2,841, four savings banks here located have deposits, alto-gether, exceeding $16,000, Residence of Ex-Gov. Frank W. Rollins TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE. The citys telegraph and telephone service is complete andefficient, both the Western Union and Postal Telegraph com-panies having stations here, while Concord is an importantpoint in the New England Telephone and Telegraph Com-panys system. The Concord exchange is quartered in a sub-stantial new brick building, erected by the company aboutfive years ago, at the Corner of School and Green are about 2,000 local subscribers, and about 2,500 inthe entire Concord district, which includes also Pittsfield,Chichester and Northwood Center. Concord, the City Beautiful. 39 HOTELS. No city in the state has a better hotel, or one furnishinga more satisfactory service, than the Eagle Hotel in Concord,with which the Phenix was united as an annex some yearssince, making it also the most capacious of all the year-roundhotels in the state, so far as accommodations
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