The postwar village · Industry and trade · Village life
A newspaper series on the first ice factory
13 October 1957 – 10 November 1957 Proven
Between 13 October and 10 November 1957 the Argos weekly Άσπις του Άργους printed four instalments of A. P. Tsakopoulos's "Historical notes: the first ice factory of Myloi–Lerna". Written partly from memory, it is the main source for the mill of Barber Ali and the two ice factories.
- Threads
- Industry and trade, Village life
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Άσπις του Άργους, 13 and 20 October, 3 and 10 November 1957, Digital Library of the Hellenic Parliament
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