Antique Circus Wagons Lead Milwaukee July Fourth Parade
The Milwaukee Fourth of July parade featured 60 painted Circus World Museum wagons from Baraboo drawn by horse teams, with 175,000 to 900,000 spectators recorded by media and police estimates. A camel escaped, a police car was nearly trampled, and a tiger was tethered aboard a replica wagon. The wagons join in horse drawn processions with steam calliope and beer band wagon as Baraboo museum crews contribute.
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Milwaukee
State Historical Society
Circus World Museum
P. T. Barnum
Joseph N. Alberti
Society
Western Wisconsin Museum
Baraboo
Ringling Brothers
Lake Michigan
Baraboo Museum
Barnum
America
Europe
Iowa
Nixon considered resigning over Watergate family says
Julie Nixon Eisenhower recalls in a birthday interview that President Nixon discussed resigning after the Watergate crisis but the family advised against it, saying it would imply wrongdoing. She says he was in the dark about the break in and cover up and believed he should finish the job.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
Julie Nixon
Eisenhower
White House
Julie
Camp David
H.R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
John W. Dean
Juliae
Senate
Watergate Committee
Dean
San Clemente Inn
Airman Doolittle Arrives for Duty at Camp New Amsterdam
Airman 1st Class Dennis A. Doolittle nephew of Mr and Mrs D C Mikkalson of 3319 Robinsdale Ave La Crosse has arrived for duty at Camp New Amsterdam. The 1971 graduate of La Crosse Central High School is stationed in the Netherlands.
Policeman Trapped Between Bank Doors in Neenah
An officer found an exterior door of the Marine National Bank open overnight in Neenah Wisconsin and entered the bank The door then locked trapping the officer between two door sets for 45 minutes until another bank officer arrived by walkie talkie and freed him.
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Neenah, Wis
Marine National Bank
Wisconsin Justice Dept Recorded Transfers in Waste Firm Bid Case
Wisconsin Justice Department says it planted transmitters on a Madison trucking executive to record talks with City Disposal Co. officials. A judge was told the executive knew of the bugging and that the department did not view it as illegal.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Justice Department
Robert W. Warren
City Disposal Co
Waste Management of
Wisconsin
James Pellitteri
Meyers
Smith
Atty
Michael Zaleski
Wichita
City Disposal
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la Crosse Tribune
Netherlands
Bridgeview Plaza
Eta Iad
Ted Reynolds
Montgomery Ward
Dantes Square
W.L. Jackman
Justice Department
Criminal Investigation Division
Frank Meyers
Wiscotie
Sin Telephone Co
Ity
Jay Street
la Crosse
Russell J. Gile
Margi
Cass
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