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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1942
Page
8
This ad outlines three repayment options for loans of 25, 50, and 100 dollars with four to six monthly installments. It highlights no endorsers required, private service, and three loan types on personal note, car, or furniture with rates around 25 percent per month up to 150 dollars and 2 percent per month above that.
A correspondence from the South reports Had finally arriving after leaving Chicago in 1938. He moved with his wife from the util ity sector to Florida, stopping in St Augustine, then to Coral Gables where they chose a home on the east shore overlooking the Atlantic. The piece notes the adjustment from a life of action to retirement.
Seven Joliet draftees pictured at Camp Barkeley Texas completed ambulance training with listed names Howard Gendron Vincent Creed Reno Garbin Orville Collings Charles Delrose Charles De Mattie and Steve Godich. The piece also notes Miami Three Score and Ten Club leader Warren O Hodgdon and a query on auto accident fatalities in 1941.
The expression root hog or die began in mid 19th century America as a blunt frontier motto meaning work or starve. It appears in J H Beadle's Life in Utah where it is cited as the refrain of the Bull Whacker’s Epic indicating idlers have no place in a pioneer society.
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