The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
Magnolia Variety Store
Popular news and stationery establishment, 670 Dudley Street, Roxbury
T C. Smith is the proprietor of a popular newspaper and stationery establishment, known as the Magnolia Variety store at No. 670 Dudley Street, Roxbury. It was opened to the public
patronage five years ago and appears to have met a real demand in that neighborhood for a place of that description. The store is commodious and is neatly arranged and carries a large and varied stock of goods, monthly magazines, periodicals, stationery, pens, pencils, erasers, blotters, cigars, cigarettes, tobaccos, school supp.ies, souvenir post cards, the Boston daily and the Boston and New York weekly papers, etc., to great variety. There is also connected with the establishment a feature which makes one of the educational installations of the locality, in the form of a circulating library with one thousand ‘volumes on its shelves. These books
are mostly works of fiction and history by the best authors. The fee charged for use of the library is two cents a day for each book taken out. The library is liberally patronized by both young and old.
Mr. Smith is a native of Boston and has lived in Roxbury for a number of years. He is a man who is highly thought of in the neighborhood and commands the unqualified respect and esteem of all of his fellow citizens, who feel that they are under personal obligations to him for providing so desirable a store as his for the convenience of themselves and their families.