Flag Day Event Draws Crowd In La Crosse Community
A June 15 Flag Day rally at the courthouse square featured a march through State Street and a program with Veterans of Foreign Wars groups, the Coast Guard, Civil Air Patrol, and local clubs. Speeches urged fighting racism and upholding the Declaration of Independence, with scholarships awarded to three area students and a state contest invitation for two high school winners.
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LA Crosse Tribune
Court House Square
State Street
Bee
Guard
Battleen Vers
Bond
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Purple Heart Boys
Coast Guard
Civil Air Trol
Aquinas Wives and Mothers Club
Women's Relief Corps
CIO
AFL
Contra Band
Boy Scouts
Girls Logan Band
Dido
Eagles
Play— Children
Heileman’s m
Aquinas
Trygve Nystad
The
Elks
B. W. Ingli
L. L. Boerkohl
Mark Esch
James Laux
Central High School
Gerald Larson
Logan High School
Robert Schenk
Galesville High School
Laux
Milwaukee
Navy
Larson
Z. S. Rice
Sparta
Tribune
la Crosse
Main Street
Riverside Park
Ellis
Gysbert van Steenwyk
County War Bond
Torpedoman
W. A. Lewis
Robert C. Rief
Pfc
Gus Pappas
Y1c
Harlow J. Schutt
Coast
Judy Garland Director Obtains Marriage License
Los Angeles report states Rosamond Rice head of the county marriage license bureau issued a license to Judy Garland, a director, amid a domestic scene described with informal anecdotal detail. The event is noted in the context of routine civil procedures.
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Judy Garland
Los Angeles
Rosamond Rice
Plan Sunday Lawn Party At City Home
Miss Josephine Fletcher oversees the annual lawn party at La Crosse Home for Children, 609 South 11th Street, as war bonds, letters, and savings fuel hope for the 29 charges. Service members like Bobby and Bill send letters and plans for marriages while housing remains tight.
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la Crosse
South 11Th Street
Josephine Fletcher
Navy
Bob
Miss Fletcher
Bill
Government exits subsistence homestead program
The government steadily winds down the subsistence homestead projects begun in 1933 34. Eighteen of thirty one non farm projects are liquidated as ironwood Michigan leads plant sales. Homes and facilities valued at millions were sold or turned over to local tax units with federal loans offered to residents. Losses total roughly half the homes sold, while several hosiery mills were sold to a private syndicate for 1.2 million. Greenbelt Greendale and Green Hills remain held for private builders.
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Washington
Federal
Ironwood
Mich
Lake County
Illinois
Jasper
Ala
Crossville
Tenn
Eleanor
W. Va
FSA
FPHA
Wrecked 1941 Ford in Highway 14 crash near Shelby
Albert Moldenhauer drove a 1941 Ford into a ditch on Highway 14 near Shelby at 8 p.m. Thursday. Police noted 150 feet of skid marks on the shoulder before leaving the road. The driver, a soldier on furlough, suffered only a slight cut on the mouth.
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Albert Moldenhauer
Highway 14
Shelby
Eight-Inch Gun Fires Shell With 90 Pounds Explosive
A U S Army artillery eight inch gun fires a shell that carries 90 pounds of explosive. The report notes the significant charge used in each shot and its implications for artillery power and safety.
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U. S. Army
Day at the La Crosse Home for Children
A brief glimpse shows a figure rushing to meet multiple demands of time and ingenuity at the La Crosse Home for Children as part of daily duties observed in the article.
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la Crosse
Naval units batter Matsuwa island in Kuriles
United States naval forces in the North Pacific shelled Matsuwa, the Kurile Islands stronghold 480 miles northeast of Japan, in daylight raids. Rear Adm. J. H. Brown Jr. commanded cruisers and destroyers through heavy seas into fog to close on shore and fire salvoes.
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Kuriles Island
Matsuwa
Adm
J. H. Brown, Jr
Washington, D. C
Scalp-Rite promises hair growth remedy and shampoo
The ad claims since 1933 Scalp-Rite has never failed to grow hair on any woman with thin hair. It promises correcting dry brittle hair and dandruff and invites readers to purchase the remedy and shampoo in various sizes.
Trains Collision Injures 40 to 50 Passengers in Antigo
A southbound Chicago and North Western passenger train and a switch engine collided injuring 40 to 50 people in Antigo Wisconsin. Ambulances ferried the wounded to hospitals as wrecking crews cleared the tracks and the city responded.
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Antigo
Wis
Chicago and North Western
Ger
Ashland
Chicago
Plane County
Radio Programs Tonight Mixes Reintroducing ABC Network
NBC and CBS schedule a busy night with ABC formerly BLU presenting Weapon for Tomorrow featuring a Freedom of Information drama, guests Joseph Grew and Wilbur Forrest, and a switch to Joseph Cotten in the lead. Salutes from WNAX and KRNT anchor the late slots as a daylong lineup unfolds across multiple stations and programs.
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New York
BLU
American Broadcasting Co
Freedom of Information
Joseph C. Grew
Wilbur Forrest
New York Herald-Tribune
Joseph Cotten
Thomas Mitchell
WNAX
Yankton
8. D
Sioux City
Flying X Ranch
KRNT
Des Moines
NBC
Jay C. Flippen
CBS
MBS
Pittsburgh
Jacksonville
Pia
Baltimore
Paul Lavalle
Dunninger
Henry Aldrich
Thin Man
Moore
Durante
ABC
Lone Ranger
FBI
Will Osborne
Sinfonietta
Freedom of Opportunity
Rog Robinson
Jimmy McDaniels
Lone State College
Preakness
Judy Canova
People’s Platform
al Pearce
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Walter Albrecht
Lewis
la Crosse County
Achell
Francis X. Bushman
King of
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Miss Rice
America
TaneRroste
Southern Comfort Corp
ST. Louis
U.S
Kuriles
Clen Clements
North Pacific
United States
Doerflinger
French
Morocco
American Eagle
Britain
Howard’ S Varieties
Morse
NBC Forum
Richard Harkness
Mr. Smyth
Josh
Martin Agronsky
Alex Dreier
John Vandercook
Labor Advisory Committee of
OPA
Bill Slater
Rinso
WKBH
Debbie Lou Casuals
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