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                  <text>Telephone---

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Telephone bus.

the

went

ï¿½eno House on ï¿½arvis St.
it

where

1907
1907
1907
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1907

Fort Erie
Gust.

1907

had

formally

H.F.
A.m.
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Pia p aYa blvd.

George Tait

Funlon Hotel

E.J.mawkins

R. White

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arvis St.

Young lvien' s Christian Ass.
Zimmerman
Phipps St.

W.E.

HUNT

Niaeara

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Hawley

St.

commisoner
Niagara
as on Bertie St.
fruit dealer
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d a r i e B e rt ie
&amp;

Bartholemew Purpura
Plato

Emmerson Plato

W.J.

Jarvis

butcher.
Lewis St.

Niaeara St.
liquor Mere.
Niapare St. dept. store
Niagara Blvd. butc her
Butcher Niagara. Blvd.

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Anglo American Hotel

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daughter became the first

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