File:Church of the Holy Spirit, Fall River, Massachusetts (1911) (14597500470).jpg

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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s organized in June, 1880, andis now one of the strongest and oldest banks of the kind in thisState. Its assets amount to about $854,433.43. Profits creditedOct. 31, 1909, of $114,804.54. It has a reserve fund and surplusof $36,370.67. The Peoples Co-Operative was organized in February, 1882.It has assets of about $300,000, profits approximating $45,000,and surplus of about $9,000. The Fall River Co-Operative Bank has assets of over $600,000,with a surplus and guaranty fund of $28,672, and a membershipof over 1000, placing it well in the front ranks of the strongestCo-Operative Banks in the State. The Lafayette Co-Operative Bank was organized in April,1894.Shares in the series matured to the value of $200, each in May,1906, while the monthly payments thereon amounted to $144.Dividends averaging nearly 5 per cent, having been credited. Thus Fall River banks and Co-Operative banks have been emi-nently successful although strictly conservative, and as safe andsound as any in the land. 68
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CHURCH OF THE ASCEXSIOX TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES. The Western Union and the Postal Telegraph Companies eachhave offices in Eall River. The Southern Massachusetts Tele-phone Company and the Fall River Automatic Telephone Com-pany also have offices in this city. These companies are all lib-erally patronized and successful. Recent municipal acts requiretheir lines to be conducted under ground which relieves much ofour city of many unsightly wires so often seen in other cities. CITY STATISTICS. Fall River has about 150 miles of public streets, 15 miles ormore of which are paved with blocks of granite, 60 miles of whichare sewered and with many miles of minor sewer connections.A hundred miles are laid with water pipes and connections. Thecity uses 789 electric lights, 167 gas lights and 311 kerosene lights(in suburban localities) for its nightly illumination. It has anelectric fire alarm system extending to all mills and to all parts ofthe city. It has 20 wharves on its water front, the p

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