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Newspaper
Forest Park Review
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
16
Forest Park laygrounds host a Friday trip for hundreds of youngsters to see the Cubs at Wrigley Field as the Recreation Board sponsors a second free outing of the season for young fans.
The obituary recalls a woman born January 9 1894 in Momence Illinois. She lived in Chicago and Forest Park, active in Pauls Ladies Aid American Legion auxiliary Ladies of the Knockers and Bethel Mothers club. Survived by husband three children Esther Robert Florence mother Amelia Douglass and siblings Margaret Kirgis Frances Maher Fred and Ira Douglass. The sackbut reference notes it as an early form of the trombone.
A fragment notes a son who fell in a duel three years earlier, as claimed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The terse line hints at a historical reference without providing full context or dates.
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