The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
Miss M. J. Hyland
Keeper of a general store of auseful character, 6 Bloomfield Street, Dorchester
Miss M. J. Hyland owns and operates a most useful establishment and one which supplies many of the wants of the neighborhood at No. 6 Bloomfield Street, corner of Geneva Avenue, Dorchester, in which are happily blended the characteristics of a creamery and a general store, together with a baker of the first class. She supplies milk, bread, brown bread and baked beans, hot every Saturday evening, fancy rolls, fresh every morning, and home-made pies of the most delicious sort. She keeps strictly fresh native eggs and choice butter, toys, games, stationery, a full line of school supplies, cigars and tobaccos, baseball supplies, an extensive selection of souvenir post cards, Cennison’s [i.e., Dennison’s?] supplies, such as crepe papers and decorative crepe papers, passé partout binders and hangers, a complete line of Welsbach high grade mantles, fireworks, for holiday celebration, and ice cold tonics of the most delicious and refreshing description.
Miss Hyland opened her store ten years ago, and it is looked upon as one of the permanent fixtures of the locality and as an institution which could not be dispensed with without genuine loss to the community which delights to trade there. Miss Hyland was born in Boston and hals always lived in this city. She enjoys the unqualified respect and esteem of the community and is known to every resident in the locality, the large majority of whom are numbered among the regular patrons of her well re8ulated establishment.