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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1938
Page
6
Mary Lou Wardley profiles Joliet's new minkery on South Chicago Street where about 250 minks are raised for fall fur coats. The piece details feeding, cage setup, age of newborns, and the animals' nocturnal habits as they mature.
The article describes six month old minks with dark shade and white chin spots, noting their bad temper and vicious bites. They are to be gassed at Thanksgiving. their pelts, worth 15 to 50 dollars, will be shipped to New York for auction. It warns women that a hundred skins are needed for one coat.
The Croatian Catholic Youth Organization will hold its annual picnic at the Gun Club on Black Road Sunday. The program includes races ball games for men and women horseshoe pitching and dancing. Aborigines of North Australia trade their women and girls to pearl traders for trade tobacco sticks.
The first annual Frankfort Firemen's picnic will run Sunday afternoon and evening at Frankfort Grove, half a mile north of Frankfort on Route 45. Open to the public with no admission charge, the program includes two kittenball games, a band concert, hillbilly music, dancing, talking pictures, and a fireworks display. A $200 prize will be shared by five winners.
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