The Rebirth of the Riverside Hotel
New management promises a first-class experience for travelers in Snohomish City.
The story, cleaned up
A cleaned-up reading of the newspaper page: spelling and layout repaired, one story lifted off a crowded page. It follows the original closely but it is not a transcription. The original page is below; read it if a detail matters.
H. Light, having recently leased this convenient and well-known hotel building for a term of years and refitted it in good style, begs leave to inform the community that they are now prepared to accommodate the public. They propose keeping a strictly first-class hotel. The table will be supplied with the best the market affords. A first quality of wines, liquors, and cigars will always be on hand. Every attention will be shown for the convenience of the patrons of this house.
“They propose keeping a strictly first-class hotel. The table will be supplied with the best the market affords.”
Long before modern boutique hotels arrived in Snohomish, the local hospitality scene was defined by the 'first-class' aspirations of proprietors like H. Light. His 1877 notice captures a time when a town's standing was measured by its ability to provide comfort to travelers in a rugged, growing territory.
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