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Found the 1942 story of my grand uncle Francis J. Doman’s fatal accident while I was exploring the microfilm dept at the Parkway Central Library.

The fire truck he was riding in collided with a trolley. According to the article, the trolley didn’t hear them because the siren was turned off due to wartime regulations.

Reading the rest of the paper, the war shows up everywhere. References to rubber shortages and other supply limits, you can feel something big was happening in the background of everyday life.

There were also far more stories about injuries and fatal accidents than I expected. Hard to tell whether it was a more dangerous time, or if newspapers just reported those things more prominently as a main news source.

The final image is the original scan and layout. The first few I rearranged to make the article easier to view in this format.

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