M. McCarthy conducts an exclusive horse shoeing shop at 112 North Main street in Ottawa. This is the only exclusive horse shoeing shop in Franklin county. Mr. McCarthy began business here seven years ago and prospered from the beginning. This may be accounted for because he has given his whole life to the study of the horse’s foot and the proper treatment of it, and the fitting of the shoe with such precision that the hoof and shoe seem as one. He is a pathologist of rare ability, and diseases of the horse’s foot are carefully and properly treated by this superior methods of shoeing. This is an age of specialists and horseshoeing , as in every other vocation in life, is special trade. Consult Mr. McCarthy about your horse’s feet and he will convince you that he is no novice.
Source: Ottawa Daily Republican Sep 5-9, 1898
Name of Business: McCarthy, M.
Current Address: 112 N Main
Date Business Began: 1891