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"Times Gone By" Tuesday, October 2, 2007
120 years ago (1887): From The Pilot: “John E. Smith is fitting up
the Old Gallagher building and will open a butcher shop there. This makes the
fifth shop in Blair and is unquestionably the cause of meat being so high priced
and so poor. Each of these shops keeps a team and an average of at least three
men, so that the people in Blair who eat fresh meat are compelled to pay, in
addition to the first cost of the meat, shop rent and other expenses, a profit
to the proprietors and the wages of 15 men regularly. This is too much to pay on
the amount of meat consumed in a little town of this size, where one ship
employing two men besides the proprietor could easily supply the demand.”
100 years ago (1907): E.B. Redfield had entered the grocery business,
buying out the Cook Grocery. He planned to continue his variety store in the old
Higley Building.
75 years ago (1932): Blair’s soup line for the vast army of transients was
established for the second year at the rear of Robinson Café. Businessmen were
contributing the bread and Mrs. C.J.Robinson and son, Mudge, were turning out
the toast and soup.
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8. Consider a Resolution designating the downtown historical area.
a. Review by City Administrator Storm.
b. Recommendation from the Transportation Committee.
c. Council member ___________ introduces Resolution No. 2003-___.
d. Clerk reads the Resolution.
e. Motion and second by Council members to adopt/not adopt Resolution No.
2003-__ as read by the Clerk.
f. Tabulation of vote.
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