Shoeshining Newest Industry: Boys Find Business Profitable
La Crosse youths eight to fourteen have turned shoeshining into a thriving weekend business. More than twenty boys operate on Main and Fourth streets, earning about 5 dollars a day on weekends and up to 10 dollars at times. Weekdays bring 2 to 3 dollars, with some rush periods, as Civilians and servicemen seek shining. Prices range from 5 to 15 cents for boys and 10 to 5 cents for ladies, with equipment including brushes, cloths, and pastes, and some boys already using multiple stands.
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la Crosse
Main Street
Fourth Street
Tribune
Fourth and King Streets
Tom Kramer
Main
Monte Leecher
Avon
Lloyd Brenegan
South 20Th
Donald Woodruff
Sgt
C. R. Ketchum
Peter Ding
Ness Becomes An Instructor At English Bomber Base
Ness, 23, of La Crosse Wisconsin, named gunnery instructor at an Eighth Air Force B 17 station in England commanded by Col. William B David. He will train crews in gun operation tracking sighting and enemy identification. Ness is son of Albert and Mrs Fort Ness of La Crosse and previously worked for Gross Brothers in Wisconsin Rap- ids before enlisting in January 1943.
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Eighth Air Force
England
T. Set
Bernard J. Ness
la Crosse
Wis
William B David
Calhoun
Sgt
Ness
Germany
Sgt. Ness
Albert Ness
Johnson Street
Fort Ness
South Third Street
Gross Brothers
Wisconsin Rapids
AAF
Hartl to lead La Crosse city recreation program
E. P. Hartl principal of Lincoln school will head La Crosse’s year round recreation program starting Sept. 1 with offices at Washburn school. A longtime playground director and resident since 1923, Hartl plans a non athletic, activity rich program expanding summer efforts under Dr. Arthur Hoff and Mark Sutton while not supplanting existing recreation groups.
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Hartl
Lincoln School
New la Crosse
la Crosse
Board of Education
E. P. Hartl
Lincoln Elementary
Washburn School
Main Streets
Lincoln Junior High School
Cashton
New Lisbon
Hart
Arthur Hoff
Sutton
Mark Sutton
WPB shell allocation worries Wisconsin hunters amid war effort
As hunting season nears, sportsmen await WPB policy on ammunition while farmers seek shells for crop protection. The Wisconsin conservation commission tallies 1943-44 game meat totals, including deer and geese. Badger State Sportsmen's Club released pheasants from county farm hatcheries to open-hunt areas.
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War Production Board
WPB
Wisconsin Conservation Commission
Feve
Badger State Sportsmen's Club, Inc
Muth Joins 15th AAF Overseas As Navigator
Flight Officer Philip J. Muth aged 20, son of Mr and Mrs P Muth of La Crosse Wisconsin, has arrived overseas and begun flying combat missions in the Mediterranean theater. He serves in a veteran B 24 Liberator group commanded by Col Robert Eaton. The unit has flown over 90 missions targeting oil refineries rail yards aircraft plants and allied facilities across Germany Austria Hungary Romania France Yugoslavia and Italy. Notable strikes include Regensburg Wiener Neustadt Steyr Ploesti and Hermann Goering tank works. Muth is a Central High School graduate and State Teachers College student who enlisted December 9 1942 and earned navigator wings March 18 1944.
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15Th Aaf
Italy
Philip J. Muth
P. Muth
West Avenue South
la Crosse
Wis
Mediterranean
Muth
Robert E. L. Eaton
Belleville
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Romania
France
Yugoslavia
Regensburg
Wiener-Neustadt
Steyr
Ploesti
Hermann Goering
Central High School
State Teachers College
San Marcos
Tex
University of Nanking to Produce Sun Yat Sen Ideals Film
The University of Nanking plans a motion picture illustrating Sun Yat Sen ideas to boost China’s mining agriculture water and heavy industry. Chungking authorities have distributed many raw films flown in from India to motion picture studios.
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University of Nanking
Sun Yat-Sen
China
Chungking
India
Freshmen Registering at La Crosse Teachers College Sept 12
Freshmen must register on Tuesday September 12 for the fall term at La Crosse State Teachers College. Upperclassmen register the following day. Orientation runs Monday to Wednesday starting 8:15 a.m. with convocation, classes begin September 14 at 8 a.m. Enrollments exceed last year, especially in physical education. few men students expected, no returnees yet. Evening Shakespeare class registration also September 12 at 7 p.m. Gerald T. Clark of La Crosse cited for combat infantryman badge by the 34th Red Bull Division on the Fifth Army front in Italy.
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la Crosse State Teachers College
Fifth Army
Italy
Gerald T. Clark
Frank Kaemmer, Jr
R. 1
la Crosse
Wis
34Th “Red Bull
War Department
Saipan letters recount rough invasion and heroism
Corp. Ross C. Jolivette writes from Saipan that invasion fighting was brutal and then quieted, recalling shelling, strafing, bombing, snipers, and a fox hole with a friend. He notes furloughs, training sites, and posts before overseas service in 1943.
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Corp
Jolivette
Air Corps
Lincoln
Neb
Curtis Wright
Buffalo
N. Y
Curtis
Atlantic City
N. J
Kearns Field
Utah
Camp Stoneman
Calif
Hawaii
Hickham Field
Oahu
Crippen Retires From Chicago Police After Second Resignation
Col. Philip R. Crippen, 67, personnel director of the Chicago police, retires for the second time in four years. He first left in 1940 upon reaching age 63 but returned to duty as a civilian due to manpower shortages.
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Chicago, Ill
Philip R. Crippen
Chicago Police Department
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Salter Memorial Church
West Division High School
Milwaukee
la Crosse State
Phote
Alfred W.rice
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Sand Lake Coulee
van Heusen
Selec
Tion
Bergs
South 4Th Street
Teachers College
LA Crosse Tribune
Clark
Saipan
U.S. A
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Your Cleaners
Tor Scheel
Pearl St
Bigshoe Store
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