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$33.00 $38.00 $48.00 EACH.
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TIME FLIES!
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TELEPHONE 197.
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A thoroughly First-Class sud Up-to-Data Hotel
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:
Telegraphic address: "Comfort," Hongkong.
For Particulare, spply to
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"BOA VISTA " (HOTEL-SANITARIUM OF SOUTH
THE
CHINA)...... MACAO.
HE Hotel is under European manage- ment and most strict supervision as to food, cleanliness and hygiene of the place. ---All comforts of a horie.---
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Comfortable accommoastion for travellera paying a visit to the historical and picturesque
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SHAMEEN-CANTON.
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'SWATOW.
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