by Mauro Battocchi

We last left our guest post series with John Fugazi, the magnanimous Italian benefactor of the Italian community in San Francisco. Today, Nickolas Marinelli, the Northern California Editor for L'Italo-Americano, continues the Fugazi story and tells how he kept his promise to the community.

Local news was rarely seen on the front page of L'ITALIA, the daily Italian newspaper of San Francisco's Italian Colony. The front page was usually reserved for news of la patria, the home country. But on January 21, 1911, the front-page headline was a declaration that John F. Fugazi, il papa della colonia, would keep his promise no matter what the cost.

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Fonte: San Francisco, Italy