Few of Greenville’s Advantages.
Freight leaving New York City in the evening is in Greenville the second morning.
Car-lot
freight leaving New York City in the evening is in Greenville the next
evening.
Local freight, billed at in the evening is in Greenville at 2 a.m. next morning.
The vicinity of Greenville produces wool especially adapted for worsted goods.
36 mails daily.
6 mails to and from New York every day.
Three railroads (practically four).
Three routes to Pittsburg.
Four routes to Lake Erie.
Two vestibuled expresses New York daily.
Vestibuled express to Chicago daily.
Vestibuled express to Cleveland daily
Four through trains from New York every day, sleeping and dining cars.
Two through trains to Chicago every day, sleeping and dining cars.
Through Pullman service to Boston, Cincinnati and Cleveland daily.
20 express trains, exclusive of Shenango and Osgood.
The only place in America having the Vanderbilt, Erie, Pennsylvania and Carnegie freight systems.
Pullman and Wagner service to and from Chautauqua during the season.
Through train, carrying express matter only to and from New York and Chicago every day.
Postal telegraph.
Western Union telegraph.
Mercer county telephone system; all night service.
Central District telephone (Bell system) with all-night service.
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Co. tong-distance system with Boston, New York, Chicago.
Adams express.
Wells-Fargo express.
American express at Amasa and Osgood junctions.
You can take breakfast in Greenville and supper in Chicago.
You can take supper in Greenville and breakfast in New York.
Erie Dispatch, Merchants’ Dispatch and Union fast freight lines.
Block coal, finest quality, mined with in 1/4 mile of town limits.
Three other coal fields within 20 miles.
Flag stone quarries.
Building stone quarries near by.
Sand rock for glass-making purposes within miles.
Water works.
Electric light - -arc and incandescent.
Gas for illuminating, fuel and power.
Finest weldless tubing works extent.
Rolling mill.
Woolen mill.
Flouring mill.
Steam laundry and dye works.
Machine shops and foundries.
Wood-working establishment.
Three large school buildings.
High-grade high school.
A college.
Transfer house, large agricultural implement company.
Greenville is a terminus of the proposed ship canal.
First-class fire department, one engine, three hose carts, three hose companies, hook and ladder company.
Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopal, Presbyterian, United Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches.
One of the finest streets (paved) in Pennsylvania.
Good stores.
Business portion of town is compact.
Surrounded by splendid farming region.
Cost of living low.
Steam heat.
Cheap fuel.
Over thirty active secret societies and clubs.
Healthful—no epidemics of any kind.
Two national banks.
Several building and loan associations.
Good hotels.
Opera House.
Five newspapers.
Two monthly periodicals.
Board of health.
View train schedules
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Lakeshore & Michigan Southern
P.B. & L. E. Railroad
Erie Railroad
Pennsylvania Lines, Erie & Pittsburgh Division
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