Word: noblestown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parents were Lithuanian immigrants and she was born Jievute Paulekiute in a coal patch near Noblestown, Pa. In 1924, her mother got a divorce, took Jievute and her younger sister to Chicago. Mrs. Paulekas got a job in a mattress factory, married a carpenter named Peter Neveckas, settled down in an apartment near the stockyards. Jievute went to Chicago's Healy Grammar School, where two big things happened to her-she discovered that she was a very smart girl and she began calling herself Eva. At Englewood High School she shortened Paulekiute to Paul...
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