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Church Street Shoe Service proprietor Joseph Leana in Carthage

Joseph Leana in his  Church Street Shoe Service store, which he opened in 1953 in Carthage, NY. Leana apprenticed with a shoemaker when he was sixteen and went on to start his own businesses, one in Watertown and the second in Carthage. From the July 2, 1986 Carthage Republican Tribune.

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