1940: "All but 6 states in the country celebrate Thanksgiving Day today. It is a day of rain. We attended 9 o'clock High Mass. A big 13 pound turkey with all the trimmings like only Mother can make is our dinner. In the afternoon we attended the Oshkosh Theatre. A Technicolor picture North West Mounted Police was the feature with Gary Cooper, Madeline Carroll, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, and Paulette Goddard starring." [from A. E. Potter's diaries]
1946: "Soft coal mines are at a standstill. Four hundred thousand mine workers do not go to work today. John Lewis called off the contract with the government. The weather is changing to colder; a high wind begins this afternoon. Joseph Heisler, 1425 6th, passed away this morning 1:55 at Mercy Hospital. Born Sept. 17, 1870 in Austria, came to Oshkosh 1909 from Brazil." [from A. E. Potter's diaries]
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