“Mrs. Harmston, at her rooms in the Opera Block, Main street, is determined to be better prepared this season than ever before to execute all orders for dress making she may be favored with, and to accomplish this has secured the services of a first class trimmer and designer from New York city who will attend to the wa[n]ts of her numerous customers in that department in a superior manner. Mrs. Harmston has added to her establishment a general assortment of furnishing goods, including buttons, ties, ribbons, ruchings, laces, etc. A full line of samples of all kinds of dress goods to select from always on hand. Thanking the ladies of this vicinity for their patronage, she solicits a continuance of the same assuring them of good work and reasonable charges.” 

“To the Ladies—Dress Making—Ladies’ Furnishing Goods, &c.,” Trumansburg Sentinel (Trumansburg, NY), May 8, 1879, 3.