Franklin's Taffy at La Crosse Fair for 54 Years
C W Franklin has sold salt water taffy at La Crosse fairs for 54 years. He now uses a four armed machine to pull the candy and flavors it by taste while he oversees the batch. Born 1870 in Quesco Iowa he came to La Crosse in 1915 and rebuilt his career through multiple candy related ventures before returning to candy making at 74 with a shop on Main Street.
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LA Crosse
Franklin
C. W. Franklin
Pure Food Bureau
Pure Food Act
Nellisville
Black River Falls
Marshfield
Viroqua
W. E. Ashards
Madison
Fair Grounds
August Haas
Hass
Fi Street
Quesco
Iowa
Doerflingers
Cecil Allen
Julius Hoff
Brady
Allen
Main Street
South Ninth Street
Joseph Bibby
R. C. Monroe
LaGrange, Il
Tribune
Charley” Franklin
Meet Her At Meter
Chicago reports approximate nationwide use of parking meters across city sizes. meters operate in 4 of 9 large cities, 14 of 23 mid large, 29 of 55 mid, 47 of 107 smaller, 48 of 213 small, and 79 of 655 very small cities.
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Chicago
Wrecked Jap Planes Cover Arote Airport
Wrecked Japanese bombers litter Arote Airport Guam as Marines push inland. Zeros shot down after engaging carrier based planes. Airport falls to Marines in light weeklong fighting, later cleared and used as a base. U S flag raised at old marine barracks site as troops reorganize and collect souvenirs.
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William L. Worden Crote
Guam
Marine Barracks
United States
United States Navy Ward Room
Increased Newspaper Reading Spends Rise in 1943
The American Newspaper Publishers Association reports 1943 spending on daily and Sunday newspapers reached $660,937,000, up ten percent from 1942. Including Canada, total weekly and Sunday paper expenditure hit $692,784,000 with U S payments of $501,925,000 for weekday papers and $159,012,000 for Sundays.
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
United States
Canada
Association
Woman Helps Husband In Coal Shovelling
Chicago report details Mrs Margaret Ballard 43 weighing 117 pounds taking a coal shoveling job to assist her husband Willard. The couple once emptied a 55 ton car in 5 1 2 hours and she once shoveled 40 tons in a single day, roughly 675 times her weight.
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Chicago
Tae Bee
Margaret Ballard
Willard
Eer
Mexican Taxi Drivers Seek U.S. Gasoline Imports
Taxi and truck drivers aligned with a Mexican syndicate asked Mexico City for permission to import gasoline from the United States to address a shortage caused by government supply failures. The group did not disclose potential sourcing or arrangements.
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U. S
United States
Mexico City
La Crosse Sketch Clubs Hold Successful Sunday Session
The La Crosse Sketch clubs gathered last Sunday with many inactive members returning to paint. Sessions ran 8 to 10 pm, with some continuing after ten. Next meetings are Aug 13 at Green Acres and Aug 4 for the Junior Sketch group, which meets 7:30 to 9:00 pm and seeks new junior members.
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la Crosse
Green Acres
Agriculture predicts 1943 civilian food use above prewar average
The Department of Agriculture estimates civilians in the United States consumed five to seven percent more food in 1943 than the 1935-39 prewar average, and about two percent less than in 1942, despite wartime requirements.
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Department of Agriculture
U. S
La Crosse Scouts Play Part in Wisconsin State Fair Program
Ten Boy Scouts and three unit leaders from the Gateway area council will participate in the Wisconsin State Fair program. Scouts from multiple troops, led by Gus Bell and Jerome Fisher among others, arrive Aug 19 to set up encampment, assist with fair duties, and take part in the Youth Day show “Youth Serves” on Aug 26.
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Gateway Area Council
Quinn Risberg
Whitehall
Larry Holliday
Jack Coyne
Gays Mills
Robert Evenson
David Keller
David Gray
James Volkert
Arlan Johns
Richard Meyer
William Bruha
la Crosse
Gus Bell
Camp Decorah
Jerome Fisher
Philip Pejza
Gateway Council
Fair Ground
B. W. Ingli
Boy Scouts
Future Farmers
Future Homemakers
Wisconsin Recreation Association
Farmers’ Union
H. J. Hamman
Rockford
Ill
Lloyd Schafer
Fond du Lac
la Crosse Area
Bakery aroma drives Jap surrender at Toem coast
South Pacific front dispatch reports Lieut. Gen. H. Krueger praising army bakers. A Japanese captive near Toem on the north coast of New Guinea said the aroma from the bakery was overpowering, forcing him to surrender.
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Southwest Pacific Head
H. Krueger
Toem
New Guinea
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Warren Easland
R.F.D
Wis
Imperial
The
Dolly Madison
Arote
Hitlerstal Estate Co, Pargains
Nii
Eta
Bee Ptt Cell
USO
Ingli
Fair Association
Shemula
Zemo
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