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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1944
Page
7
Roman Hernandez a 70 year old resident of 562 Scott street hauls items by cart from downtown streets to support his large family of 14 including wife, daughter, son in law, and ten grandchildren. two sons serve in the military while spectators note wartime events and art losses in Cassino and the Uffizi context.
Anne O Hara Mc Cormick notes in The New York Times that German tourists once studied Europe’s galleries with care, but as war loomed they became part of a harsher mission. In Florence the Uffizi remained under German hold while the Arno banks lay Allied aftershelling.
The piece notes that if they cannot have them others shall not, predicting ruin as civilization’s only relic. It mentions insect and worm infestations carried from northern Argentina to the United States by air express to combat pests in sugar, with toads consigned to a large Florida sugar company.
Joliet Aerie No 377 F O Eagles hosts its annual basket picnic for members and families at St Josephs Park on Sunday August 27 Sponsored by the patriotic committee and Ladies Auxiliary Proceeds fund gifts to Eagle brothers in service Also mentions fight cane insects with seventy toads shipped?
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