Poppy Sale Set for May 25 National Buddy Poppy drive planned
About 6 000 Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and 3 000 auxiliaries nationwide join the 28th annual Buddy Poppy sale in May, with La Crosse Post 1530 coordinating 20 000 poppies for May 25. Proceeds aid disabled veterans and dependents, fund hospital welfare, and support national burial plots and services.
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United States
Flanders Fields
VFW
Army
Navy
Clyde Carr
la Crosse
Ene
VFW Post
Carr
Eaton Rapids
Mich
National Service Bureau
Washington, D. C
Veterans Administration
State Workers Earnings Fall Short Of 1945 Levels
Wisconsin industrial commission reports March payrolls total 300 500 workers with $13 046 000 in pay. Average pay 43 41 per worker, up 12 cents from February but nearly six dollars below March 1945. Hourly earnings roughly unchanged. Lowest weekly earnings in Eau Claire 34 41. city averages listed for Appleton Fond du Lac Green Bay Janesville Kenosha La Crosse Madison Manitowoc Marinette Milwaukee Racine Rhinelander Sheboygan Stevens Point Two Rivers Wausau Wisconsin Rapids.
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State Industrial Commission
Consin
Peyroll
Eau Claire
Appleton
Fondou Lac
Green Bay
Janesville
Kenosha
la Crosse
Madison
Manitowoc
Marinette
Resigns Capital Post for Kenosha Race
John Redstrom deputy chairman of the labor department shipbuilding Stabilization committee resigns to seek the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin’s first district. The Kenosha native leaves Washington to file his candidacy while a former Kenosha educator with 22 years in public schools enters the race.
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Washington
John Redstrom
Labor Department
Shipbuilding Stabilization Committee
Congress
Wisconsin
Kenosha
Wis
Redstrom
Democratc
Lawrence Smith
Lamb Leaves Navy to Become Advertising Executive
John M. Lamb, a senior grade lieutenant in the U S naval reserve, released on terminal leave, accepts a promotional and advertising position with a Minnesota furniture firm. He has naval service across the Pacific, earning four stars on his Asiatic-Pacific ribbon and a special commendation. He is a 1935 Aquinas High School graduate who studied at Wisconsin, La Crosse Teachers College, Missouri, and Ohio State university.
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University of Missouri
John M. Lamb
Mississippi Street
Fnally
U.S. Naval Reserve
Central and Southern Pacific
Lamb
Navy
Naval Science and Tactics
University of California, Berkeley
Calif
Naval
Midshipmen’s School
Columbia University
New York City
Kiska
Aleutians
New Zealand
Tarawa
Gilbert Islands
Gilberts
Marshalls
Marianas
Aquinas High School
University of Wisconsin and
la Crosse Teachers College
Missouri
Ohio State University
MacDoddle the college mascot dog leads campus life
MacDoddle the dog, owned by Marie Hanson of Minneapolis, spends days on leash at La Crosse College. he reportedly has an IQ of 70 to 80 and serves as mascot for Alpha Phi Pi sorority and the Invincible softball team. He enjoys campus playmates and accompanies his owner to class each day.
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Tribune
Phote MacDoddle
Teachers College
Minnesota University
Marie Hanson
LA Crosse Tribune
MacDoddle
Alpha Phi Pi Sorority
Minneapolis
Marie
Hanny
Mac
End of Suttee Practice Marked by 1829 Abolition
The article notes Suttee, an Indian custom in which a widow burned herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, was abolished by the British in 1829. It frames the act as a historic reform within colonial policy.
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U.S. Navy
John M, Lamb
Walter A. Dopke
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Lunds Flowers
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Donald the Florist
Main St
Pearl
Oshers
the National Bank Way
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
North Fourth Street
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