Rick Warns Residents Against Old Mexican Prisoner Swindle
La Crosse Chief of Police warns residents about a centuries old con named the Mexican Prisoner. The scam uses letters from Mexico claiming a prisoner has $300,000 stored in a trunk and offers a share for upfront funds to secure papers. A second racket targets towns with promises of scarce liquor for deposits, as in Richmond where $3,300 was paid for non existent cases.
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Rick
el Paso
Mexico City
Richmond
Washington
UNRRA's Growing Footprint Across Greek Villages
UNRRA street and Jeep street appear in almost every village in Greece and UNRRA has become a popular name for children.
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Greece
Milk for the Hottentots slogan and its implications
A historic mobilizing phrase promotes milk as a civilizing, nourishing food for all. The message urges households to ensure a pure, fresh milk supply for every family member, highlighting vitamins, affordability and palatability.
Ringling Show To Play Here In 1946 Circus Visit
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey announce a Aug 20 exhibition at Salzer airport with the world’s largest big top and a four-train tour. The 1946 edition features new European acts from Sweden Belgium and Spain plus Toyland an all girl sky ballet and The Changing of the Guard as part of a 100 per cent circus presentation. The show lists 1400 people nine herds of elephants and numerous animals and horses in the touring extravaganza.
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Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Salzer
Europe
Sweden
Belgium
Spain
Claims SS Was Only Protecting Agency Described in Tribunal
MERNBERG Germany The SS described as a purely protective organization by a former SS group leader Friedrich Von Eberstein testifying at the war crimes tribunal He claimed SS acted to direct traffic on party days and that many nobles and church members joined to advance Germany’s cause The witness opened the SS defense.
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Mernberg
Germany
War Crimes Tribunal
Freidrich von Eberstein
Eberstein
Rivoli Theatre 1926 20,000 Years in Film Titles Contest
The Twentieth Year of talking motion pictures is celebrated August 6 by Rivoli Theatre with a contest. Readers name 20 film titles from different years in La Crosse Tribune entries. Prizes include passes from six months to one month. Entries due by midnight August 14.
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Rivoli Theater
la Crosse TriLune
la Crosse Tribune
Labor union meetings and price control stance posted
A labor union bulletin lists this week’s meetings across locals 396 448 and 395 plus the CIO auxiliary and AWA with notes on Truman's decontrol board. It urges holding prices to June 30 levels and against NAM pressure while recounting a recent Allis Chalmers egg throwing incident involving a production worker.
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UAWA
NAWA
Stewards
la Crosse
Truman
OPA
Allis-Chalmers
Allis- Chalmers
County Chest Clinic Offered for August Attendance
County hosts chest clinic on Wednesday August 14 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in room 224 Vocational school. County Nurse Helen Hanson at the courthouse can be written to or phoned at 679 for details. Teachers urged to attend. clinics are run by Wisconsin Anti Tuberculosis association with city and county health departments alternating.
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Helen Hanson
Miss Hanson
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Centen nial McVey Born In 1876 Reflects Iowa Centennial
Ottumwa farmer C T McVey embodies Iowa centennial feeling as communities statewide mark the state’s 100th year. His given name is Centennial, chosen by his parents at his 1876 birth, the year a century after the Revolutionary War outbreak.
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Ottumwa
C. T. McVey
Iowa
MccVey
Wisconsin schools to gain from navy surplus stocks
Madison officials said the state department of public instruction will tap a large national surplus program, distributing army and navy stocks to schools via central depots and expanded eligible item lists. The Wisconsin Education Association reports 378 local schools have already benefited from surplus equipment and materials.
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Madison
Wis
State Department of Public Instruction
Department
Army
Navy
Wisconsin Education Association
State Institutions Overcrowded Report
Wisconsin’s penal and correctional institutions show rising populations through 1946. The Green Bay area state reformatory is up about 50 percent in 18 months, with 370 inmates now and expected 425 by year end. Inmate totals at Waupun Prison near 1,000, forecast 1,150. costs per capita to rise to 13.19 dollars, up 1.49.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Department of Public Welfare
State Reformatory
Green Bay
Reformatory
Waupun
Taycheedah
Waukesha
Oregon
First Come First Served at Durban Smugglers Sale
Customs sale in Durban, South Africa auctions off seized whiskey gin rum and cigarettes at controlled prices. The usual auction was abandoned and items sold on a first come basis with the slogan First come first served.
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Durban
South Africa
Public bakeries rise in Rome around 168 B C
The source notes that public bakeries began operating in Rome circa 168 B C, marking an early communal food infrastructure development. This historic detail places municipal bread production in the late Roman Republic era and highlights organized urban provisioning.
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Rome
B. C
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