Mayor Fred J. Ruether holds the scissors at the ribbon-cutting ceremony held for the new bridge May 28, 1936. He issued a proclamation requesting all businesses and manufacturing places to be closed …
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Mayor Fred J. Ruether holds the scissors at the ribbon-cutting ceremony held for the new bridge May 28, 1936. He issued a proclamation requesting all businesses and manufacturing places to be closed at noon that day. A banquet was served in the City Park Auditorium at 12:30 p.m. to a crowd of 241, and there was a parade beginning at 2:30 p.m. from the Grammar School, east on Fifth Street, to St. Francis Hospital to the new bridge.
