Haraldson Plans Norway Trip After 26 Years Away
North side merchant John B. Haraldson leaves La Crosse by Northwest Airlines at 2:55 p m Sunday for New York arriving 10:40 p m CT. He then flies Scandinavian Airlines to Oslo arriving 2:30 p m Wednesday after six weeks traveling Norway Sweden and mentions sending a message to Crown Prince Olav.
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John B. Haraldson
North Side
Norway
America
New York City
Westby
Haraldson
Northwest Airlines
New York
Newark
Scandinavian Airlines
Oslo
Follebu
Sweden
la Crosse
Morkved
Arenz Shoe Company
Fry Shoe Company
Caledonia Street
Cit la Crosse
C. A
Olav
Memorial Day Service Inspires Poem The Blue and Gray
A Memorial Day service at Friendship cemetery honoring Union and Confederate soldiers inspired the poem The Blue and Gray.
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Friendship Cemetery
Spokane Woman Started Father’s Day Idea in 1934
A Spokane woman, Mrs. John Bruce Dodd, proposed a single annual Father’s Day. The Spokane ministerial association endorsed it, and the day was first observed in Spokane in June 1910. The concept slowly spread, with Jane Addams in Chicago supporting it, though broad adoption lagged.
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Spokane
John Bruce Dodd
Wash
Windy
Jane Adams
Walter Burgess
Patent Office
McDougall Named District Head of La Crosse Phone Co
E. B. Lamp announces W. G. McDougall as district manager for the La Crosse Telephone Company. McDougall brings 15 years with a major independent firm and will focus on prompt local telephone service. He and wife reside at 1817 Market Street with two children.
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E. B. Lamp
la Crosse Telephone Corporation
W. G. McDougall
McDougall
Market Street
Tighten Down On Farm Loans
The Agriculture Department, urged by President Truman, plans to press banks and credit agencies to tighten farm loan lending. Secretary Anderson will lead a meeting with farm leaders and lenders to emphasize the risk of rising land prices and the 65 percent lending rule used by federal land banks, while not aiming to dictate private policy.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Truman
Agriculture Anderson
Anderson
Federal
Federal Tax Laws To Be Overhauled Next Year
The Ways and Means Committee said the vast federal tax code will be overhauled, marking a first step by Congress. Chair Knutson and Rep Coughton urged the study would help the 80th Congress fulfill a long delayed obligation to American taxpayers in a constructive, non-partisan manner.
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Washington
Tax Drafting House
Ways and Means
Congress
Knutson
R-Minn
Coughton
D-Nc
80Th Congress
San Quentin Library Plays Requests Over Intercell Radio
Warden Clinton Duffy said San Quentin prison maintains a library of records and will broadcast request numbers over the prison intercell radio hookup. Selections include Time On My Hands How Was I To Know Gentlemen Of The Jury They Didn t Believe Me Till The End Of Time A Door Will Open and I d Do It All Over Again.
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San Quentin
Calif
Clinton Duffy
Bananas Grow on Tall Plant Reveals Herb Nature
Bananas grow on a tall plant that is actually an overgrown herb. The statement highlights the plant's unique classification and common misconception about its stature and form.
Proposed Wisconsin budget curtails conservation services
The Wisconsin conservation department warned hundreds of rod and gun clubs and groups that upcoming budget plans would sharply cut operations across game, fish, law enforcement and parks divisions. It opposes diverting license funds to predatory bounty payments and tourist promotion, warning such moves would shrink general game and fish funding by about 275000 annually and negate gains from a new universal license. Local clubs are expected to back the department, stressing that license receipts should stay for conservation. The koala note appears as unrelated filler.
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Madison
Wis
Conservation Department
Legislative Finance Committee
State General Fund
Rennebohm
Uniform patent policy urged for all agencies
Attorney General urged a uniform policy to reserve to the government all rights to most inventions by government employees and researchers under contract. He cited fantastic profits by some workers and waited Saturday for steps to tighten the system.
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Washington
Taxi Helps Out Edwin Johnson Wedding Trip
Bucklin Missouri reports that Mr and Mrs Edwin Johnson traveling to southern Nebraska to attend their son's wedding could not use rail bus or air transport due to floods. They finally chartered a taxi to Cameron Missouri where they hoped to continue by bus or train.
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Bucklin
Missouri
Edwin Johnson
South Central
Neb
Cameron
Elect Club Officers in Wisconsin Federation Meeting
MARSHFIELD Wis one report says Martha Ann Hollenbeck of Green Bay was elected president of the Wisconsin federation of business and professional women's clubs at the annual convention. Other officers include Second vice president Dr Sarah D Rosenkrans Neillsville.
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Marshfield
Wis
Martha Ann Hollenbeck
Green Bay
Wisconsin Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Oma Bey
Sarah D. Rosenkrans
Neillsville
Hotel Columbia Bar to Close Six Days
ASBURY PARK N J The Hotel Columbia will close its bar for six days amid conventions including a gathering of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union officials said the pause is for event hosting and hotel operations.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Columbia
Women's Christian Temperance Union
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