Local District Wins Honors In Legion Contest
The seventh district of the American Legion in Southwestern Wisconsin, based in Milwaukee, shows high state honors in district competition and will attend the Eau Claire convention parade on August 29. The La Cropse Amenean Legion drum corps and auxiliary team lead the district delegation amid detailed membership figures from June 13.
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State Department
Ford J. Lipovetz
Big Ten
Little Ten
Ninadiogn
Distuick
Cain Ie Jaan
Hersey Trintrdet
Wabroetinchheeehann Astune
Chars County
Jenna Daly
Monroe Critate
Vernon Covstity
Layen
Kit Benedilla
Mhureburg
Weather and photography musings from a Wisconsin paper
The article weaves weather talk with local culture, noting drought in Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan prompts migration to Alaska while rain recurs. It covers La Crosse diamondball on a stronger basis, early film work by Arthur Schroeder, Don Webber's summer photo tour, and reflections on artistry in photography with anecdotal humor and a Mount Wilson deer shot. It ends with a playful bead on simple flowers for London tables and a fleeting brew garden joke.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Alaska
Uncle Sam
Mississippi
la Crosse
Motion Picture
Arthur Schroeder
Heilerson
Don Webber
Devine
Margaret Bourke White
Mount Wilson
Observatory
Wisconsin Telephone inquiry costs 1 396 000 in 1934
Madison Wis P A Colbert chief accountant for the Public Service commission testified that the state wide probe of Wisconsin Telephone company has cost 1 396 000 up to the end of 1934. He said the commission spent 1 308 000 and the utility 1 088 000. Colbert noted the 1933 temporary rate reduction order anticipated total costs of about 450 000 with 99 000 for 1933, and said 1934 maintenance costs rose 142 760 largely from higher labor costs.
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Madison
Wis
A. R. Colbert
Public Service Commission
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Colbert
Governor Graves Urges veto of Cashman oleomargarine tax
Alabama Governor Bibb Graves telegraphed Wisconsin Governor Philip La Follette urging veto of the Cashman bill. The measure would tax oleomargarine from cottonseed peanut and soybean oils and animal fats produced domestically. Graves warns against embargo on Alabama dairy interests and advocates no sectional embargo.
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Madison
Wis
Bibb Graves
Alabama
Philip F. la Follette
Wisconsin
Graves
Engineers Custodians Name Officers For Year
Rhinelander Wisconsin reports the fifteenth annual convention concluded with K P Graborkiewicz of Minneapolis re elected president. Other officers include J W Shepard Evansville Indiana as vice president H E Burt Minneapolis as recording secretary UL C Helm Minneapolis as treasurer and John Bartel Escanaba Michigan as financial secretary. The women’s auxiliary named Mrs J J Bartel Escanaba president Mrs Walter Irick Rhinelander vice president and Mrs C Pykoski Minneapolis secretary treasurer.
Dodgeville Salesman Denies Holdup Charge
Lloyd Coyier a 48 year old Dodgeville automobile salesman denied complicity in the May 13 Peoples Savings Bank of Elma robbery before Judge J E ONeil a county court hearing on a governor's warrant for extradition Coyier said he could prove he was not in Iowa at the time Inspector J J Burke of the Iowa attorney general s office connected him to the crime The judge set July 9 for a hearing on the habeas corpus writ request
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Dodgeville
Wis
GFI
Lloyd Coyier
Elma
J. E Oneill
Ari
Colier
Iowa
Peoples Savings Bank of
Quake Misinterpreted as Local Tremor Draws Call Rush
New York police logged about 200 inquiries from Coney Island residents seeking an earthquake explained away by a shots fired at Fort Hancock New Jersey by Delaware national guardsmen using obsolete 10 inch guns to discharge old ammunition.
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Coney Island
Delaware National Guardsmen
Ft. Hancock
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Col Arthur Kerwin Dies In California
Col Arthur R Kerwin, a Spanish American War veteran who trained 1200 men for World War II service at the University of Wisconsin, died Wednesday at Sawtelle National Military Home Hospital in California. He was 65.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Arthur R. Kerwin
University of Wisconsin
National Military Home Hospital
Sawtelle
Clean Out Kidney Poisons and Doan's Pills
The notice urges flushing toxins from kidneys to prevent acid poisoning and backache. It highlights 15 miles of kidney tubules and warns that insufficient daily urine output risks severe illness. It promotes Doan's Pills from Foster-Milburn Co as a trusted remedy since 40 years.
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Foster-Millburn. Co
Queen Bee pilotless plane demonstrated in Britain
Great Britain's pilotless air taxi the Queen Bee was shown at Farnborough with a human pilot in the cockpit as a backup. The radio controlled wooden craft answered ground commands and performed a glide landing from 2000 feet before a safe auto restart. At least 15 units with floats or wheels had been built.
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Hants
Eng
Great Britain
Royal Air Force Airdrome
Queen Bee
Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires Prove Blowout Proof in Race
In the 500 Mile Indianapolis race May 230th, all 33 cars used Firestone Gum-Dipped tires. Kelly Petillo won without tire trouble, and Al Jenkins logged 3000 miles at 127.2 mph on salt beds in Utah with no tire issues. The ad promotes longer wear, lower cost per mile, and unique gum-dipped cord construction.
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Indianapolis
Kelly Petillo
al Jenkins
Utah
Firestone
George A. Born Dies At Milwaukee
Funeral services set Saturday for George A. Born 53 former president of Milwaukee live stock exchange and senior partner in Milwaukee's oldest packing firm He died Wednesday after several weeks illness A prominent figure in harness racing circles Read Tribune Went Ads
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Wis
George A. Born
The
Milwaukee Livestock Exchange
Tribune
Deaths Of Persons Over 60 Reach Peak In Wisconsin
Wisconsin state board of health reported 16 984 deaths last year among persons over 60, the highest on record. Heart disease, cancer, cerebral hemorrhage and nephritis were the top four causes in this age group, with the board urging moderation in living to postpone such deaths.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Board of Health
Soo Line Veteran Dies At Minneapolis
William C. Ranous, 64, general superintendent of transportation for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railway, veteran of 40 years, died in Minneapolis after an illness since last November. Born in Berlin, Wisconsin, he was the son of a railroad man and entered service in December 1888 as an operator at Gould City, Michigan.
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Minneapolis
Minn
William C. Ranous
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Wholesale liquor truck deliveries limited by state
Madison Wisconsin state treasurer ruled that honor dealers who take orders from retailers and deliver liquor from a parked truck outside retailers’ businesses are selling liquor without a license. The warning notes arrests and possible revocation of wholesale liquor dealers licenses for peddling liquor from parked trucks.
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Madison
Wis
Robert E. Henry
Beverage Tax Division
Henry
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