Talbot Fisher: Town fights chickenpox, scarlet fever, polio
Galesburg fought against deadly disease as local industry hummed along. And it was the week that the Axis Powers truly formed as Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact. On Thursday, The Register-Mail announced that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as reports were coming in that Japan would side with Germany if the United States went to war, had placed an embargo on American scrap metal going to Japan. It was no secret that the United States did not approve of Japan’s invasion of...
Source: galesburg.com