From our archives: Litterbugs filled Sterling streets with trash
What we thought: 75 years ago
Note to readers – Sauk Valley Media reprints editorials from the past as a regular Monday feature. The following editorials appeared in the Gazette on Jan. 18, 1938.
Our untidy streets
Cartons, bags, cellophane wrappings – whenever you buy anything these days, it has some kind of a protective or sanitary covering. If it is only a cigar, a package of cigarettes or a candy bar, it comes in a cellophane overcoat.
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