Mourning goods

Betts & Medbury Dry Goods in the Childs Directory 1870
Betts & Medbury Dry Goods in the Childs Directory 1870

I don’t know where I’d go for mourning goods today, but in 1870, I’d have gone to Betts & Medbury, in the Mansion House Block in Troy. Dry goods of every description, but mourning goods were their specialty. Mourning was big business in those days.

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