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War job helps Joliet wife aid ordnance plant effort
Mrs Penelope Krause of 113 Hobbs Avenue Joliet left her Navy husband overseas to work at the Kankakee Ordnance Works. She splits four hours in the wash house pouring TNT and four hours in the nailing house boxing lids. Her husband Robert James serves as a Navy electrician's mate first class in the Pacific. Krause saves for a postwar home while supporting war production and urges others to join the drive at the War Manpower Commission's United Employment Service in Joliet for needed labor.
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Penelope Krause
Hobbs Avenue
United States Employment Service Office
Joliet
Kankakee
Navice
Robert James
American Cyanamid Company
Pacific
Ordnance Plant
Briargate
Krause
Ordnance Works
Penelo Krause
Will County