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SPECIAL REDUCED SUMMER RATES
PER DAY 14 to remording
WEEK 325 840da
Pos
de
»
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do do WEEKENDS Saturday afternoon to Monday.
morning-$7 to 319,"*
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a
Children under 12—-half rates.
SPECIAL TERMS FOR FAMILIES. Excellent Cooking by Aa Cuzono, for over seventeen years Chief Cook with the. late Mr. J. W. OBEJENE,
WM FARMER,
Proprietor.
1919