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Newspaper
Daily Gazette
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1973
Page
11
In a small western city a roomful of Alcoholics Anonymous participants listens as Alice K. 55 recounts starting to drink at age nine and a life shaped by alcoholism and divorce. Other attendees confess tall tales and coping struggles while some admit recent sobriety or relapse.
In a reminiscence Helen M Pages recalls summertime circuses of small venues and big names like Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey. Crowds gathered early to watch parades and the mass unload, with elephants helping free wagons stuck in mud under dawn light.
A 13 year old Boy Scout Henri Zajic collected 3712 books in a year for St Albans Naval Hospital patients. Starting with a goal of 500, he gathered donations from friends and neighbors, making many collection trips with a shopping cart, aided by hospital approval to pursue Eagle Scout.
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