Blaze Gutts Building In Fort Atkinson Wisconsin
Fire destroyed Maple's tavern and an adjoining apartment on Main street in Fort Atkinson. Bartender John Deesh warned patrons then saved 600 to 700 dollars from a desk before escaping. The Stanton family fled their apartment, losing all household goods. Smoke damaged two nearby stores as firefighters fought smoldering embers through the night.
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Fort Atkinson
Wis
Walter Stanton
John Deesh
Deesh
Stantons
Charles Maple
Rev Strum To Talk At US League Meet In Wisconsin
PIGEON FALLS Wis Special The Rev George Strum of Ettrick new pastor of the South Beaver Creek French Creek and Tamarack congregations will be best speaker at the United Lutheran League Sunday Jan 30 at 8 pm He will speak on spiritual experiences of men he contacted during the war Other program items include piano solo Louise Kaas vocal solos Mrs Melvin Ackley and Mrs Basil Olson reading Anna Lou Herbert a vocal duet Beverly Myren and Celina Goplin and violin solo Marie Rice
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Pigeon Falls
Wis
George Strum
Ettrick
Beaver Creek
French Creek
Tamarack
United Utheran League
Strum
Louise Kaas
Melvin Ackley
Basil Olson
Anna Lou Herbert
Beverly Myren
Celina Goplin
Marie Rice
Indictment Draws 12 In Shakespeare Strike Damage
Kalamazoo Michigan State Director Thomas Shane and 11 CIO United Steelworkers members were indicted for the December 1 raid on Shakespeare Co plants. About 300 protesters smashed equipment overturned cars and injured seven nonstriking workers. The UAW CIO claimed responsibility for the rally against strike-breaking actions. The indictment accuses Shane and six other union leaders of conspiracy to molest nonstrikers block streets and cause a disturbance.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
CIO
United Steelworkers
Shakespeare Co
Uaw-Cio
Thomas Shane
Detroit
Shane
John Simpson
Ilil
Glenn Sigman
Growers Seek Separate Wisconsin Potato Marketing Pact
ANTIGO Wis members of the Potato Growers of Wisconsin Inc vote to start petitions for a referendum to sever Wisconsin from the federal marketing order No 60 and form a separate Wisconsin agreement. They must secure signatures from over half of about 4 000 commercial growers and represent at least half the acreage.
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Antigo
Wis
Potato Growers of Wisconsin, Inc
Michigan
Minnesota
North Dakota
Wisconsin
B. H. Diercks
Anti-Inflation Plan Passes First Test
President Truman backs a voluntary anti inflation plan that Senate action may extend to 13 months through early 1950. GOP Senators press for continued voluntary controls, with hearings set for February 8 led by Senator O Mahoney and featuring Brannan and the council of economic advisers.
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Washington
Truman
GOP
Maybank
D-Sc
Senate
Banking Committee
Senate-House Economic Committee
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Joint Committee
Tod
Agriculture Brannan
President
Council of Economic Advisers
Congress
Council
Trunan
Brannan
Commerce Department
Name New Tomah Church Officers
TOMAR Wis Special Officers of the American Lutheran church of Tomah for the coming year are C J Lund president, Robert Nicol treasurer, and George Holm and J F Stephrude trustees.
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Tomar
Wis
American Lutheran Church of
Sweeney Returns Home After Minn. Visit
Margaret Sweeney of Waseca Minnesota has left Caledonia after a weeklong visit with her sister Mrs Patrick Coleman and other relatives.
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Caledonia
Minn
Margaret Sweeney
Waseca
Patrick Coleman
La Crosse Rent Office Introduces New Adjustment Provision
La Crosse area rent office adds a 1949 amendment allowing an adjustment to restore the difference if average annual net operating income from FHA insured rental projects falls below the original FHA projected income. Owners may file an application with the area rent office to seek this adjustment.
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la Crosse
la Crosse Area
William A. O'Neil
FHA
O'Neil
Office of Housing
India Launches Cinchona Acreage Expansion Program
India announces a program to extend the area planted with cinchona trees, aiming to boost quinine production. The initiative targets increased cultivation and supply for the pharmaceutical industry amid ongoing disease control efforts.
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India
City Recreation Dance Plans At Logan High
In La Crosse January 27 1949 a Logan High dance is planned with airman Caroline Jene Voves and Charlene Peterson named. Pat Bright chairs selling coke with Marilyn Schick Anne Fletcher Betty Pierce and Mel Scarseth as assistants while chaperones are Miss Clarice Oren and Monte Pelton. The 1949 schedule lists Central dances on February 4 29 March 5 19 April 2 and 23 and Logan dances on January 29 February 12 March 12 March 6 April 9 and 30. A February 26 variety show will precede a Logan student dance and February 28 another presentation for parents and friends.
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Caroline Jene Voves
Charlene Peterson
Pat Bright
Marilyn Schick
Anne Fletcher
Betty Pierce
Mel Scarseth
Clarice Oren
Monte Pelton
Central
Logan
Decorah Bluejacket Returns From Med Cruise
Arnold O. Nesset a first class USN commissary man of Decorah Iowa was due back in Norfolk Virginia January 24 following a six month Mediterranean Sea cruise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D Roosevelt.
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Decorah
Arnold O. Nesset
USN
Winneshiek Avenue
Norfolk
Mediterranean Sea
Franklin D. Roosevelt
McCormicks Return From Chicago Visit
Mr and Mrs James F McCormick have returned home after two months with their daughter Mrs L N Hawkey and family in Chicago Illinois.
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Caledonia
Minn
James F. McCormick
L. N. Hawkey
Chicago
Ill
Beauty Winner Found Beaten To Death
In Sacramento a 23 year old beauty contest winner Anne Stewart Cather was found with a crushed skull in her boarding house room. Her husband Fred Cather a 28 year old draftsman was arrested after being located in San Jose. A Sacramento pilot testified he flew him there. Cather said I beat my wife up all I saw was red.
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Sacramento
Calif
Anne Stewart Cather
Fred Cather
Dra
San Jose
Cather
Harvey Hutchins
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John Howard Melish
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Brooklyn
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National Council of Soviet-American Friendship
Tom Clark
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