Band Will Play Myrick Concert in La Crosse
The 1946 Myrick concert features a varied program with marches and overtures by von Bion Beeth oven Coward Porter Friml Herbert Brown Nevin and King. The program includes True to the Flag Zigeuner Begin the Beguine Indian Love Call The Dancing Doll The Doll Dance Dawn and It's the Paper Moon among others with intermission after the Southerner March and a feature on old toys.
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von Bion
Zigeuner
Coward
Porter
Egmont
Beethoven
Friml
Thean
Alexander
Babes In Toyland
Herbert
Poldini
Brown
Venice
Nevin
True Blue
King
Points on deer antlers across species and ages
The note surveys antler point counts in whitetails and other deer. It cites records of 25 32 and 42 point whitetail antlers, mentions a 78 point Texas deer and a 102 point display in Wisconsin, and compares age related growth and variations among reindeer moose red deer mule deer and Banff specimens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Thompson Seton
Europe
Asia
Organize New Drama League For Sponsoring Stage Shows
A La Crosse civic group forms the Drama League to sponsor three professional plays this fall at the Vocational school auditorium. Membership drive mirrors Community Concert efforts with season tickets set at six dollars for all three shows. Plans call for New York City Civic Drama Guild actors and directors with Chicago and other cities expected for future productions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Community Concert Association
Ray Plamadore
WKBH
Bernice Callaway
Harold Youngberg
John Felton
Verne Huber
Civic Drama Guild of
New York City
Plamadore
Chicago
Drama League
Poland Enacts Universal Labor Conscription Law
A newly passed Polish statute mandates compulsory service for men aged 18 to 55 and women aged 18 to 45. Draftees can be assigned to work anywhere for a two year period. The measure broadens national mobilization and economic labor capacity.
Request for Rome leaflet from Uncle Ray
A reader in La Crosse Wisconsin requests a copy of the leaflet Rome and the Olden Romans. The letter includes an addressed envelope with a three cent stamp and is sent to Uncle Ray care of the La Crosse Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Uncle Ray
la Crosse Tribune
la Crosse
Wis
Faulty Auto Equipment Blamed for Rising Highway Deaths
Traffic safety officials report a 47 percent higher national death toll and cite faulty brakes tires rear lights and wipers as major hazards. A.I.C.P. program reviews 163 576 vehicles across 23 states showing 35.8 percent below safety standards. Insurance claims also surged with a 51.3 percent rise in early 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Raleigh
The
Ternational Association of Chiefs of Police
IACP
Worm Records Big Catch Attracts Local Angling Crowds
Lewistown Montana reports a season record by clifford foreman age fourteen who hauled a 28 inch rainbow trout weighing six pounds eight ounces using a plain barnyard worm as bait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistown
Mont
Clifford Foreman
Clifford
Why Birth Rates Fall in Johannesburg Says Doctor and Clergyman
A doctor and a clergyman offer explanations for declining births in Johannesburg. The physician cites social and economic factors as responsible, noting health improvements and reduced fear of childbirth, while the cleric blames modern girls for preferring films and dancing over motherhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannesburg
South Africa
Brave carrier pigeon All Alone earns Dickin Medal
The blue hen All Alone, bred and trained by J. W. Palger of Middlesex, received the Dickin medal for gallantry after a mission in August 1943. Dropped in France with vital info, it flew 400 miles from Vienne to Middlesex in a single day, proving birds act with conscious risk. The note also mentions a lake trout as the largest trout species.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Palger
Middlesex
Dickin
France
Vienne
Lyons
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Myrick
Persia
Tribune
Uncle Ray’s
Wyoming
Banff
Alberta
Montgomery Ward
Howard Frederick
Trig Newstad
Howard Dahl
Ezra Hart
Russel Huber
New York
NEW Labor
R. J. Schneider
Linker
Super-Hirleen Dry Cleaning
Schultz & Nelson
South Fourth Street
Mele Ray
R.F.D
Sinclair Fuel Oil
Clyde Bourret
Montgomery Ward & CO
la Crosse, Wisconsin
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