Show seventy one years in a shoo shoe shop sha Char charles liDs 11 II wilson of troy N Y the unique position of 0 having been in business in one building for 71 years rears at least he will have completed ft 11 years in tho the shoe business at 24 HI river street august 12 next this thin record it la is believed can be equaled by few it any shoo retailers tillers re in this Iou auntry ou mr wilson has haa also boon in business tor for himself for or more than SO 50 years mr wilson to la today just juat as aa much in active business as he was waa almost three pt PL 4 century nap ald ladled ai TS derod tho the employ ot of john leonard willama of troy to bo be exact that thata was nas august 12 1810 1840 mr kept a shoo store at river street in a building which had been reeled directed in 1803 1802 and so the building now occupied by mr wilson for hla his retail shoe business Is ono one ot at the old est buildings in troy |