City to hire street watering contractors for 1907 season
His Honor Mayor Wardwell and the superintendent of streets select street watering contractors for the 1907 season with a monthly price set at 90 dollars, up five dollars from the prior rate due to higher grain and horse costs and to ensure improved service. The list of names includes Barrett Black Bushway Callahan Cosgrove Curley Davoren Donahue Downey Duty Thwyer Fawcett Finnick Glennon Griffin Herbert Herlihy Keane Linehan Merrill Murphy Murphy Murphy McCarthy O Donovan O Keefe ONeil Ray Richardson Riley Ryan Shea Silva St George Sullivan Sullivan Sullivan Tumilto White and others.
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Wide West Stage Charm Ends in a Clash and Encore
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