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GRAND OPERA HOUSE BUFFET

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Match safe. Once stocked with matches, the "safe" held them until one match was pulled out to use. The "safe" then reclosed

GRAND OPERA HOUSE BUFFET. The license to operate a tavern was much more expensive than one to maintain a restaurant. The idea of operating a "buffet" allowed the sale of liquor with food at less cost to the owner.

The Dubuque City Directory of 1909 gave the address of this business as 289 8th.

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