The postwar village · Industry and trade · Village life
The ice factory «Η Λέρνη» runs into debt
12 February 1958 – 22 June 1958 Proven
On 12 February 1958 the "cold industry of Myloi «Η Λέρνη»" announced that it would start paying its creditors in June, and in May Vasileiou called thirteen creditors to a meeting at the factory on 22 June 1958. Work stopped because creditors took him to court; the free electric lighting he had promised Myloi never came.
- Where
- Ice factory, Myloi beach
- Threads
- Industry and trade, Village life
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Άσπις του Άργους, 16 February 1958, p. 2 ("Ανακοίνωσις") and 18 May 1958, p. 2 ("Πρόσκλησις")
- A. P. Τσακόπουλος, idem, part 4, Άσπις του Άργους, 10 November 1957, p. 1
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