Gratitude Train Sent By France To America
An abbey in Southern France will be remanned and shipped to the United States. It will be reconstructed as a monument.
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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
2
An abbey in Southern France will be remanned and shipped to the United States. It will be reconstructed as a monument.
France to send the Auch abbey and gifts on the Gratitude Train in response to the American Friendship Train. The shipment includes art, symbolic items, and historical relics, with the abbey later sent to Amarok. The Gratitude Train carries 49 box cars representing France’s regions, filled with pottery paintings tapestries books lace and more.
Ed Thresher, owner of Ferndale Mallet, sells his business to customers amid a lukewarm reception as patrons note temporary declines in meal costs. Hospital confinement and a fall victim, Harriet Bertet, returns home after treatment, while Miss Clara Newbury visits.
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