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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1943
Page
9
Postmaster J Walter Lowrey warns that staff shortages and overwhelmed trains threaten timely Christmas deliveries. He notes November and early December mailings must continue now, or many gifts will miss Dec 25. Extra Saturday hours and extended December 18 open date aid mailing efforts. The piece mentions the large Irish Horse Traders family as a unique example.
The fragment describes horse and mule traders based in Atlanta with an annual mass funeral and marriages, mentions Idlewild Airport in Queens as a future five times larger facility with four square miles, 13 miles of runways, and 5 miles of taxiways, and notes identical pay between Marine Corps Women's Reserve and male Marines.
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