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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library
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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library. December 2 The Emergency Aid Association has started the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals in this town and packages of 100 seals have been mailed to every family in town with an explanatory letter. The money received for these stamps is used in combating tuberculosis. Eighty-five per cent of the money received for the sale of these stamps remains here in the town to be used by the Emergency Aid Association. December 9 There was a large attendance at the chicken pie supper given by the ladies of the Sacred Heart church in the Suffield School gymnasium.
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On Sunday afternoon, November 10, 1957, a small crowd gathered in the Suffield High School auditorium (now Suffield Middle School) for the charter meeting of the Suffield chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
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On the morning of October 12, 1970, principal speaker Walter Cronkite chats with Judge Howard W. Alcorn as Ray Tanguay directs the Suffield High School orchestra onstage in the high school auditorium.
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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library.
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Little Ruth Kim Remington, four years old, concentrates on the job of cutting the ribbon.
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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor of Kent Memorial Library. September 2
Pupils have been enrolled for the coming school year at the Suffield School up to its full capacity. Both dormitories are full, and also the chapel which will be turned into dormitories for the coming year. Lawrence Chamberlain of Kent avenue was seriously burned about the legs and body… at the gasoline filling station in Kent avenue, when he was standing near the gasoline tank of an automobile that was being filled from the pump and the tank overflowed, and some of the gasoline spattered onto his clothing. A few minutes later he lighted a cigarette and threw the match where the gasoline had flowed over the ground.
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The celebration of the town’s quartermillenial anniversary on three days in October 1920 included a major pageant.
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A thunder shower… brought refreshing rain… growing crops have made remarkable progress in the past twenty-four hours … The rain came too late to save the hay crop….