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Blaski, John Frank
Inventor, manufacturer. Born March 31, 1892, in Chicago, Ill.; the son of Bernard and Pauline (Zinda) Blaski. Education: St. Hedwig's parochial school and Bloom Township H.S. Married Stella Iwicki (deceased); 2nd wife: Violet Reptowska, married her Aug. 5, 1926. Children: Lillian, Evelyn, Emanuel, Loretta, John, Jerome, Robert, Marian, Bernard, Barbara. He is a private pilot; a prolific mechanical inventor. He has on the market a film box used in practically every motion picture house in Chicago and is being introduced throughout the United States. Owner of Blaski Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Ill. Address: 4132-38 Belmont Ave., Chicago, Ill.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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