Army Reports 8 Enlistments In Area During Past Week
The army lists eight new enlistments across the area with three at the Tomah substation under M Sgt Joseph E Lange. Enlistees include Loren L. Roder Russell P. Sowle and Paul J. Wesoloski from Tomah. Others at La Crosse station include Max E. Revels and John P. Miles. Francis H. Keaveny joins under the army career plan for radio operator school at Fort Monmouth with basic at Camp Breckinridge and subsequent radio procedure training.
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Army
Tomah
Joseph E. Lange
Loren L. Roder
Pearl I. Adams
Russell P. Sowle
Kenneth H. Sowle
Paul J. Wesoloski
John F. Wesoloski
la Crosse
Max E. Revels
Infantry
Far Eastern Command
John P. Miles
John N. Miles
Charles Street
Francis H. Keaveny
Margaret Keaveny
St. James Street
U. S. Army
Keaveny
Signal Corps
Radio Operators School
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Camp Breckinridge
Signal School
Army Career Plan
Rta
Viroqua
Black River Alls
Prairie du Chien
South Fourth Street
Truman To Light Yule Tree In Missouri Town
President Truman will press a button at his Missouri home on Christmas Eve to light the national Christmas tree on the White House lawn. He will deliver his traditional Christmas Eve address from Independence, with presidential secretary Charles G. Ross noting travel plans for the holiday stay.
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Truman
Washington
White House
Charles G. Ross
Wentemettey
Ross
Missouri
Independence
Sousa Flutist Dies After Streetcar Injury
Milwaukee mourns 70 year old Lufsky longtime associate of John Philip Sousa and first flutist in his band. He toured internationally and performed before Czar Nicholas and King Edward VII who awarded a diamond pin. Injured Saturday by a streetcar, he died as identity was confirmed. He had lately worked as a tool crib attendant at Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co.
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Milwaukee
Marshal Lufsky
John Phillip Sousa
Sousa
Czar Nicholas
Edward VII
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co
Martian Signal Idea Echoes Sahara Diagram Plan
A historical note recalls a proposal from long ago to draw a large Pythagorean theorem diagram in the Sahara Desert. The aim was for Martian astronomers to recognize the mathematical cue and detect humanity’s attempt at interplanetary communication.
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Mars
Sahara
Library exhibit curates year’s top fiction and non fiction
Public library highlights include Carl Sandburg and Norman Mailer novels plus Graham Greene and Irwin Shaw titles. Nonfiction features Freeman’s Washington biography volumes one and two, Sherwood Roosevelt and Hopkins, Chase Jonathan Fisher Maine Parson, and Adams Album of American History End of an Era. Also showcased are Georgiana Harbeson American Needlework. Burnham World Federation and Finer Americas Destiny. Swain Insect Guide. Jaeger Tracks and Trail Craft. Cartmell Amateur Theater Handbook.
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Carl Sandburg
Norman Mailer
Graham Greene
Irwin Shaw
Alan Paton
Eisenhower
Europe
Robert Sherwood
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Douglas Southall Freeman
George Washington
Washington
Freeman
Martha Custis
Robert E. Lee
Virginia
Dominion
Saturday Review of Literature
Mary Ellen Chase
Jonathan Fisher
Maine
Parson
Parson Fisher
Blue Hit
Miss Chase
New England
Remi Nadeau
Los Angeles
James Truslow Adam
Georgiana Brown Harbeson
James Burnham
America
Herman Finer
Burnham
Finer
United States
Ralph Swain
Ellsworth Jaeger
van Cartmell
La Crosse 1948 City Directory Released to Subscribers
Wright Directory Co of Milwaukee delivers La Crosse Onalaska and rural route listings in a 31 937 name directory the largest published here. Eligibility starts at eighteen. Directory notes tenant owned homes heads of households marital status and wives names. Alfred Aaberg and Kenneth L Zurn top the roster with unusual names like Greencrow Eagle Dog and Little Sol.
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la Crosse
Wright Directory Co
Milwaukee
Onalaska
Wright
la Cros
Crosse County
la Crosse City
Directory Publishers’ Association
Chambers of Commerce
The
Wright Co
la Crosse County
Greencrow
Eagle Dog
Little Sol
Wisconsin States Cash Balance Report
State Treasurer Clyde M. Johnston reports a December 1 cash balance of 20,508,758 with a prior month 11,388,684. Disbursements last month totaled 71,033,146 including 54,756,409 to the highway fund. receipts were 80,153,219. Investments total 271,208,687 including 89,718,513 in the teachers' fund.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Clyde M. Johnston
Johnston
Teachers
Santa Claus On Wings Arrives For Berlin Airlift Mail
A special far east air force will take off from Brookley Air Force Base Mobile Alabama with a load of mail. It will rendezvous with a German plane to exchange cargo and return home. The mission aims to bring Christmas mail to service members in Japan and Germany airmail to families.
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Tokyo
Far East Air Force
Brookley Air Force Base
Mobile
Ala
Germany
Air Force
Japan
Berlin
Early coal naming falsehoods misnamed by miners
Historical note explains bituminous coal was misnamed in early mining as its properties were misunderstood. It states there is no bitumen in coal, but a hydrocarbon resembling bitumen can be produced from coal.
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Sills
Best
Hoeschler
Piggsly Wigsly
Bemel
C. A. Beranek
Conrad Kjos
Tribune
Phete
Egad,sraffer Som
CEA Ventures
Acee Enern
Piggly Wiggly
Max Bemel
Santa Claus On Wings
Russell H. Lovold
King Street
John Schneider Co
South Third Street
Were
Gillette Street
Clark-Bracken
Fifth Avenue South
Peter Nelson & Son Vn
General Contractors
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