Featured Barber poster... Need help here

Searching on ancestry.com, I found some obituary notices for people named "Faris" with a connection either to Fall River or that area of MA and RI. Here are screen captures of what I found...






More to follow in next post...

 

I also found this obituary for Constance...
http://www.heraldnews.com/x863239788/OBITUARIES-6-3-13

 

I believe that address is Hope St. rather than Home St. Today anyways, Home St. in Fall River only goes up to the 130s and it looks residential. Hope St. in Fall River is more commercial. Like you Steve, I found several Farises in Fall River. I did see an Adele Faris in the 1910 census of Bristol Co. with the HOH (Head of Household) a Tanous Faris living on Hope St. Adele Faris dates (1897-1987). In the 1920 census Adele is living on "South Main" Fall River with a Thomas R. Nasser as HOH. In the 1930 census Adele is living on Robeson St. with Thomas Nasser as HOH. I can't actually get in to read the census because it is on Ancestry.com and at this time I am not a subscriber.

Bottom 4 listings on page:
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&gsfn=Adelle&gsln=Faris&gss=seo&ghc=20

--- Susan

 

In the following New England Business Directory - 1922, page 704, is listed a Tanous Farris of 181 Hope St., Fall River, MA in the dry goods business:
https://books.google.com/books?id=u3Q1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA704&lpg=PA704&dq=Tanous+Fahris,+Fall+River,+MA&source=bl&ots=35qdYj6b1j&sig=fFEybeYfGmW8q1ZN4IDDmWzDa2o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBWoVChMIkZeoqYDOxwIVDHA-Ch0bvQun#v=onepage&q=Tanous Fahris, Fall River, MA&f=false

BTW, I have seen the name of Tanous Faris spelt in several different ways such as Tanous Ferris, Tanous Fehris, Tamos Ferris, etc...

Here are listings for Tanous Faris dry goods business at 181 Hope Fall River in the following Fall River City Directory for 1921.

p. 282, near the top of the left hand column under Faris saying
" " Tanous (Barbara) dry goods 181 Hope"
https://archive.org/stream/fallriverdirecto1921bost#page/282/mode/2up

and on p. 734 he is listed in 1921 at 181 "Hope" Street. Hope St. starts in the middle column. 181 is about the 3rd listing under Hope. It says "Ferris, Tanous Dry Goods." There are 2 other businesses at the same address.
https://archive.org/stream/fallriverdirecto1921bost#page/734/mode/2up

--- Susan

 

Is everyone positive that the name is "Paris"?
Could that first letter be something else? Although, with Google, they usually will say "Did you mean ****" when you have close, but wrong.

Dang - I missed some posts I see.

 

Great work, Susan!

 

Pat, I now see you found the same Faris family in the obit of Eva Faris. At the bottom of her obit in "Other Persons mentioned in the obit" are listed Barbara Faris and Tanous D. They may have been her father and mother.

All I could find at that address for Faris was the dry good with not mention of Barber Supplies. Anyways with the name Faris at that address in 1921 certainly narrows the date down to that time.

--- Susan

 

Hello, are you still looking for information on this? It is my great grandfather's. If you have it would love to connect with you.

 

A little late to the party Baily.....Steve hasn't posted here since Aug 18th 2015.
U could try a private message to him....but I doubt that will get his attention 14 months after the fact.

Still.....neat that you have a family connection.

 

Yeah, I live in the west and will be in the area this weekend. I was searching for his address when I came across the post on the plane. Sure it's long gone, but wanted to try. He had other items with his name on it that my family has. I always love seeing them.

Thank you for getting back to me!

 

Nevermind......just looked up and saw I was about to post same info as a year ago

 

I found this link that mentions the Veg-a-tone company at the bottom of the poster.

http://www.libraryweb.org/~digitized/miscdir/Classified_business_directory_of_western_new_york.pdf

 

Looks like the guy is wearing a celluloid collar and dickey and the illustration shows a Leyendecker influence. (If that's of any help.)