Legion Group Gets Poppies For Poppy Day
The Roy L. Wingers American Legion auxiliary receives a shipment of memorial poppies from Wood Wisconsin. Disabled veterans in the hospital craft the crepe paper flowers used to honor war dead and aid occupational therapy.
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Roy L. Wingers
American Legion Auxiliary
Wood
Wis
Auxiliary
Vernon H. Lamp
Legion
France
Belgium
Europe
America
Isconsin Department
Fern Family Surpasses Thousands of Species
Scientists note the fern family includes nearly five thousand species. Ferns reproduce without flowers or seeds, relying on spores for propagation across habitats.
Hearing Scheduled on Wisconsin School Aid Plan
The Wisconsin legislature prepares its first public hearing on the state education commission’s new school aid bill. It would raise annual funding to about 20 percent of local costs and include incentives for rural district reorganization and expanded programs. Supporters note increased efficiency and district reforms, while opponents urge tax-cut concessions.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Commission On Education
Assembly Committee On Education
Rennebohm
Wisconsin Citizens Public Expenditures Survey
Milwaukee Association of Commerce
Wisconsin
Commission
Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Deafness Explained in Free Western Electric Booklet
An illustrated booklet titled Modern Science and Your Hearing explains causes and remedies for deafness. Based on Bell Labs research, it offers guidance for hard of hearing individuals and can be requested free from Western Electric, Dept. 380-23, 195 Broadway, New York.
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Western Electric
Uch
The
Mous Bell Telephone Laboratories
Dept
Broadway
New York
La Crosse County Picks Tank Bidder as Pumps Rejected
May 18 bids tabulated for 8000 and 564 gallon tanks show W A Roosevelt Co of La Crosse winning the tank contract with bids of 730.80 and 82.45 respectively and immediate delivery promised. Pump bids from Felker Brothers and Electric Welding Co were rejected or lower at 503 with fittings 151.40 and 530.40 plus 151.40 respectively.
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la Crosse County
Superior Welding Co
Milwaukee Welded Products
W. A. Roosevelt Co
Felker Brothers
Electric Welding Co
la Crosse
Felker
Five Luther College graduates form City class of 1949
Five La Crosse students earn bachelor of arts degrees from Luther College on May 31. James Hanson William Jungbluth Helen Miner Richard Ulvilden and Arnold Veglahn are war veterans with ties to Central High Logan and South Sixth Street addresses. Each pursued majors in history business economics religious education and physical education and several held coaching teaching or seminary plans after graduation.
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Norway
James Hanson
Harold M. Hanson
Adams Street
Luther
Hanson
William Jungbluth
A. W. Jungbluth
North Seventh Street
Mary Bond
la Crosse
Jungbluth
Helen Miner
J. W. Miner
1540
Prospect Street
Miss Miner
Pi Kappa Tau
Richard Ulvilden
George Ulvilden
South Sixth Street
Ulvilden
Irving Literary Society
Classical Club
Nordic Cathedral Choir
Schola Cantorum
Agricultural progress in Soviet Central Asia crops
At a congress of agricultural research workers in Soviet Central Asia it was reported that sub tropical crops, previously unknown in the region, can now be cultivated. Sugar cane and lemons were among the crops cited as successfully grown.
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Soviet Central Asia
Driving 500 Miles A Day Would Take 72 Years for 1.4 Million Road Miles
A statistic estimates that at a constant 500 miles per day a driver would need over 72 years to traverse all 1,400,000 miles of improved roads in the nation. The figure highlights the vast scale of the country’s highway network.
Wisconsin Enacts Liberalized Unemployment Benefit Law
Madison Wis The state administration adopts a liberalized unemployment benefit schedule raising weekly minimum from eight to nine dollars maximum from twenty four to twenty six dollars and extending benefit duration from 24 weeks to 26 4 weeks The law ties benefit amounts to employment length and broadens the industrial commissions powers to require job search The waiting period now includes partial unemployment and lawmakers consider extending coverage to more small businesses and workers.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Industrial Commission
Commission
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Legion Group
Bernard Radtke
Tribune
Florence Lamp
Poppy Drive
O. L. Kile
Deluxe Engineering Co
Tribune Madison
Eye
Hale Price
Main Street
Consolidated Dairies
South Seventh Street
Jewelers
Main St
le Crosse
Ony Xu
Xow
Aine
Veglahn
Arnold Veglahn
Bernard Veglahn
South 21St Street
Judge
Delphians
L” Club
Harmony, Minn
William J. Thompson
Rivoli
Thompson
Lees and Bunge
Army
U. S. Army
Central School
University of Wisconsin Law School
Marie Holland Smith
Minneapolis College of Music
Peter D. Tkach
G. L
National Association of Schools of Music
LaSalle
Mina
American Banking IN
Evans Woollen, JR
Batavian National Bank
Samuel B. Pettingill
WLCX
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