Sounds like a late-80s band of rapping rabbis or something.

priceless

I wondered as well if the “Wm. Clayton, Notary and Conveyancer” was our familiar William Clayton, musician, composer, and pioneer diarist extraordinaire, or a relative, or not related at all?

Copy writing as a profession must have been not much fun. I noticed in the Arcade Chop House the use of the phrase “the undersigned have just fixed up the above named establishment, where will be served up to order, on short notice and in fine style…”

I’m assuming it must be a restaurant serving steaks?

Great memories of the commercial past of Utah. I especially appreciate the Cardon Bro’s jewelry and photography ad. The business was still active in LOgan into the 1950′s. It was started by Thomas Cardon, a unique Mormon Civil War (and Utah War) veteran. He was a convert from Northern Italy and came to Utah with his immigrant family in 1854. For some reason, he enlisted as a bugler in the Tenth Infantry at Camp Floyd in 1858. He enlisted as Thomas Gordon, either because of his poor english or as an army error. He met a french Corporal, Eugene LeRoy, who helped him with his english and taught him something about watchmaking.

Just before the Civil War started, he applied for a discharge but it was not final in 1861 when his regiment marched east to battle in Virginia. He was seriously wounded in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign and sent to a convalescent hospital in Alexandria, Virgina. He was there seven months and given a disability discharge and a pension of ten dollars a month for life on February 23, 1863. He spent some time in Washington and then went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where he worked for a photographer and learned that trade.

By 1865, he was in Nebraska City and moved back to Utah in 1867, joining his family in Logan where he opened the shop represented by the advertisement. At the time of the ad, he would have still been the proprieter. He lived an active life right up to his death in 1898. The shop is now gone but his posterity is prominent in Cache Valley today.

My research indicates he was the only Mormon who served in the regular U.S. Army in the “Utah War” and the Civil War and returned to Utah.

“Ohh, what an imposing structure…I’ll bet their pianos sound divine.”