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The Minneapolis Tribune, July 8, 1909, p. 7
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MADE HOMELESS BY NEIGHBORS Rokita Loses Shack Because It Offends Community. Charged with making an attack on Lawrence Rokita's domicile and reducing it and its contents to kindling wood, Joseph Chepik, Joseph Walek, John Mitezk and Valentine Zayone, all residents of Northeast Minneapolis, were arraigned in police court on a charge of disorderly conduct. Rokita lived at Filmore and Winter streets northeast. His house was a shanty that he and his "bunkie" erected with their own hands, but something in its appearance seemed to have grated on the artistic sense of Chepik, Robitka's nearest neighbor, and the four men, armed with axes, speedily erased the shanty from the landscape. |
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