Today in History Highlights May 7 Through The Years
AP marks May 7 milestones from 1915 Lusitania sinking near Ireland with 1200 dead including 128 Americans, to 1789 first U.S. presidential inaugural ball in New York, to 1863 Grant opens Union drive at Vicksburg, plus postwar and Cold War notes and Estes inquiry in recent years.
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Associated Press
Ireland
United States
Germany
Britain
France
Wilson
Lusitania
America
England
U.S
New York City
Ulysses Grant
Vicksburg
Eisen
Men In 4-F Surveyed For Reclassification
The Wisconsin Selective Service chief said local boards are reclassifying men previously listed as 4-F to identify those fit for limited duty in a national emergency. About 50,000 men were 4-F at the start. the survey should extend through the summer and reclassify some as 1-Y, a new contingent asset category.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Bentley Courtenay
Strike Ties Up Five Stone Gravel Companies
In Madison five Local 139 Operating Engineers members walked off after wage and re opener dispute with the Quarry and Pit Operators Association. The strike may affect state construction as workers operate end loaders and power shovels at Madison Stone, Madison Land and Gravel, Hammersley Stone, Hartland Verona Gravel, and cross plains firm.
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Madison
Operating Engineers Union
Projects
Quarry and Pit Operators Association
Madison Stone, Inc
Madison Land and Gravel Co
Cross Plains
Hammersley Stone Co. Inc
Hartland-Verona Gravel Co
Verona
Joseph A. Melli
Employers Association
How They Voted On Colored Oleo Sale Vote Roll Call
ST PAUL AP Here is the roll call on Senate passage Monday by a 36 31 vote of the proposal to legalize sale of colored oleo margarine For the bill 36 Adams Allen J J Anderson W R Anderson Bergerud Blatz Butler Child Coleman Davies Dosland Ferrario Grittner Mel Hansen R Hanson Horum Holand Imm Kalina Krieger Langley McCarty McKnight Mosier Novak Ogdahl Olson Parish Parks Patterson Popham Salmore Thuet Westin Wright and Zwach Against the bill 31 Bates Benson Carr Dunlap Franz N W Hanson Harren Heuer Holmquist Josefson Knutson Kroehler L Larson N Larson Laufenburger Lefvegren Maruska McGuire McKee Mitchell Harold Nelson Howard Nelson Perpich Popp Rosenmeier Sinclair Sundet Swenson Ukkel berg Wukelich and Walz
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Mosier
Novak
Ogdahl
Olson
Parish
Parks
Patterson
Popham
Salmore
Thuet
Westin
Wright
Zwach
Bates Benson
Carr
Dunlap
Franz
N. W. Hanson
Harren
Heuer
Holmquist
Josefson
Knutson
Kroehler
L. Larson
N. Larson
Laufenburger
Lefvegren
Maruska
McGuire
McKee
Mitchell
Harold Nelson
Howard Nelson
Perpich
Popp
Rosenmeier
Sinclair
Sundet
Swenson
Ukkelberg
Wukelich
Walz
Business Manager of Two Rivers Paper Dies
Smiley S. Boyd, 59, business manager of the Two Rivers Reporter for nearly 15 years, died Monday at Holy Family Hospital in Manitowoc after four months as a patient. He previously worked for papers in Lincoln and Lincoln area and in Sioux City Spencer and Superior before joining in 1948. Survivors include his widow two sons William S. of Syracuse and Joseph a Milwaukee Sentinel reporter and his mother in Lincoln Nebraska.
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TWO Rivers (Ap
Smiley S. Boyd
Two Rivers
Monnt Holy Family Hospital
Manitowoc
Boyd
Lincoln
Neb
Sioux City
Spencer
Iowa
Superior
Wis
William S
Syracuse
N.Y
Joseph
Milwaukee Sentinel
Bishop bans Speaking In Tongues in California diocese
In a pastoral letter Bishop James A. Pike of California forbids glossolalia within his diocese. He urges exorcism only with authorization and psychiatric collaboration, calling glossolalia a long standing psychological phenomenon linked to schizophrenia in extreme cases.
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San Francisco
James A. Pike
California
Pike
Kodak Instamatic birth of drop in loading
The 75th anniversary of amateur photography is noted with Kodak announcing Instamatic cameras and Kodapak film. Load by dropping in a sealed Kodapak cartridge, a first in drop in loading for amateur photography. Moon Photo Service invites shoppers to see the new gear at 313 Main St or Village Shopping Center.
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Moon Photo Service, Inc
Kodak
Moon
Main St
Roman schools and education as shown by Uncle Ray asks
Latin I class at Saugus High School in Lynn, Mass receives a World Book Encyclopedia set. Readers are invited to send five questions per classroom. questions include what Roman schools were like and colleges, noting Greek slave teachers and rhetoric schools.
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Saugus High School
Lynn
Mass
Uncle Ray
Greece
Vergil
Aeneas
Cuban Liberation Unit Formed In State
A state side Cuban liberation committee was organized Sunday night to inform the American public about the Cuban situation and to raise funds. Peter Reiss, a Sheboygan attorney, was elected president with Dr. William Salazar of Milwaukee as vice president, Joyce Smigun of Racine as corresponding secretary, Dr. Rodrigo Bustamante of Milwaukee as recording secretary, and Mark Polanis of Milwaukee as treasurer.
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Milwaukee
Cuba
Peter Reiss
Sheboygan
William Salazar
Joyce Smigun
Racine
Rodrigo Bustamente
Mark Polanis
Vermont as Independent Republic for Fourteen Years
Vermont functioned as an independent republic for fourteen years until it joined the United States in 1791. The period saw its own governance and foreign relations before statehood was conferred.
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Vermont
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Two Rivers Paper
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