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The yellow building to the immediate left carries a sign that reads :  H.M. Rounds. Carriage Manufacturer.

A beautiful card with, a great variety of colors… marred only by that lurid lime green carriage in the foreground.

The reference to the death of the apprentice blacksmith would be easy to track down in the Pawtucket Times were it not for the fact that that paper (and most all other historical Rhode Island newspapers) have not been put up online.  My guess is that this was an employee.

Franklin Blake started out as a blacksmith.  (This was his listed profession in the federal census of 1880.  See “Cotton Genealogies, Notes on Slaneys.”)  Perhaps he was still in the business even at this point in time.  If so, that business would soon disappear with the advent of the automobile.  

See Providence Directory, 1889, p.797:
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