Milwaukee bidder tops 200000 bond sale for Monroe sewer project
The Monroe city council sold a 200000 dollar municipal bond issue at 1.75 percent to Milwaukee Co Chicago bid. The premium reached 2323 dollars and bids ranged up to 2 percent. Construction funding moves forward with eight contracts under review from Bruno Hartman engineers.
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Milwaukee Co
Chicago
Milwaukee Company
Bruno H. Hartman
Jerry Donahuengineering Co
Sheboygan
Finance and Taxation Committee
Monroe
P. A.ynolds
Madison
First National Bank
First National Bank of Chicago
The
Commercial and Savings Bank
Northern Trust Co
Marshall and Sisley Bank of Ch
Halsey, Stuart and Co
Harris Trust and Bank
Rt W. Baird and Co
Milwaukee
John Nuveen and Co
Rock Island Hotel Fire Claims One Life
A fire at the Harms hotel shortly after midnight killed Russell Darnell, 46, of Venport, and injured three others. In the hospital are Orville C. Wells, 41, Edwin P. Scherer, of Des Moines, and Frances Gilmore, 30, of Indianapolis. all listed as not serious. Firemen set a ladder to help Scherer who escaped. 100 guests fled a five story hotel. The blaze was controlled after about 45 minutes.
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Rock Island
Harms Hotel
Russell Darnell
Venport
Orville C. Wells
Ee Il
Edwin P. Scherer
Des Moines
Frances Gilmore
Indianapolis
Scherer
Eleventh Candidate Enters Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Cedarburg resident Peter F. Leach filed papers to join the field for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race becoming the eleventh candidate. Attorney Marshall Peterson is already in the list along with nine others as the contest continues.
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Madison
Peter F. Leach
Cedarburg
Supreme Court
Marshall Peterson
Monroe
E P Adler Dies Head of Lee Chain at 76
Davenport obituary for Emanuel Philip Adler known as Mannie, longtime president of the Lee group of newspapers since 1907. Born Chicago 1872 he rose from tramp printer to publisher and civic leader, warded off a 1934 kidnapping attempt, chaired a $1.14 million St Luke's drive, and served in press associations. Funeral at Temple Emanuel Davenport.
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Davenport
Emanuel Philip Adler
Lee
Adler
Chicago
YMCA
St. Luke’s
St. Luke's
Mr. Adler
Ottumwa
Galesburg
Ill
Omaha
Neb
Ottumwa Courier
A. W. Lee
Lee Newspaper Group
Davenport Times
Lee Group
Inland Daily Press Association
Associated Press
University of Minnesota
Madison
Davenport Democrat and Leader
Courier
Muscatine
Journal
Mason City
Globe-Gazette
Wisconsin
la Crosse Tribune
Leader-Press
Hannibal
Courier-Post
Kewanee
StarCourier
Lincoln
Neb. Ster
Phil Adler
Kwanee Star Courier
Betty Adler II
University of Illinois
Temple Emanuel
Driver ignores depot change unloads at old site
Ted Schmiedlin, manager of Union Bus depot, questions the 8:30 westbound bus after it failed to reach the new location at 1207 16th avenue. The bus reached Monroe via the former stop, with passenger discharged before the driver claimed no written order. Confusion lingered as passengers and drivers misread the new layout. by morning service resumed, though some drivers still head to the old stop.
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State Assembly
Madison
Buehler
Public Service Commission
Monroe
Monroe Transit Lines, Inc
Monroe Feed and Seed Co
12Th Street
Police and Safety Committee
Union Bus Depot
16Th Avenue
E. J. Norton
Hugo Voelkh
Chandler
Voelkli
Ted Schmiedlin
Times Building
Frank Grady
Ted
Ira Smith
Schmiedlin
Northside
Midwest Gymnasts Will Meet in City
The midwestern section instructors course of the Swiss American Gymnastic association will be held in Monroe on Sunday March 27. Sebastian Laeser was informed today. Frank Cumiskey from Hudson County New York, Olympic team member, will demonstrate exercises for 1949 competition. Turn and Schwing clubs from Monroe Milwaukee Toledo Cleveland and Pittsburgh will be represented. The local Turn and Schwing club annual exhibition is Friday evening March 25 at Turner hall with both men and women groups participating.
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Swiss- American Gymnastic Association
Monroe
Sebastian Laeser
Frank Cumiskey
Hudson County
New York
Milwaukee
Toledo
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Turner Hall
Judge Medina Halts Red Defense Challenge in Conspiracy Trial
Federal Judge Harold R. Medina ends defense attack on jury system in the il top communist leaders conspiracy trial. He rules the session closed, denies a motion to dismiss the indictment, and says the actual trial will start next Monday.
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New York
Harold R. Medina
Mail Club Romeo and Accomplice Admit Slaying Trio
Two confessed slayers Fernandez and Beck waived municipal court examination on murder charges in a cross country mail order racket. Michigan seeks delay to extradite them to New York where more bodies and a wider plot surface.
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Mail Club
Romeo
Bulletin
Grand Rapids
Michigan
New York State
Raymond Martinez Fernandez
Husky
Martha Beck
Delphine Downing
Rainelle
MacArthur Says U S Would Defend Japan
General Douglas MacArthur told visitor Frank Kluckhohn that the United States would defend Japan if attacked. He stressed there was no plan to base offensive forces in Japan, noting an attack would be a different matter.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
United States
Japan
Frank Kluckhohn
Rankin pushes vote on universal veteran pensions
Rep. Rankin asks the House Rules Committee to send his pension bill to the floor for debate. He proposes $90 monthly for 18,800,000 WWI and WWII veterans at 65 and $120 for totally disabled veterans. He cites a first year cost of $62 million and faces opposition over long term funding.
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Washington
Rankin
D-Miss
House
House Rules Committee
Rules
Truman
Rules Committee
Sabath
Dill
Rangin
Rep
Patten
D-Ariz
Veterans Committee
Frankfurt Siege as Russians Refuse Orders to Leave US Zone
American MPs blockaded the Russian repatriation mission in Frankfurt after cutting water gas electricity and telephones. Four officers and four soldiers with families remain inside as Gen. Clay demanded departure by March 1. Russians denounce move as violation of Yalta Potsdam. mission defies orders.
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Frankfurt
U. S
Germany
Mp’s
Russia
Lucious D. Clay
Yalta
Potsdam
Col
Sterling Wood
Wood
Vasily L. Argoornov
Hoover Commission urges major changes in VA operations
The Hoover commission urges improvements in the veterans administration focusing on education and insurance programs. It finds management waste and internal defects, proposing separating insurance into a veterans insurance corporation and transferring home loan guarantees to the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency. It also calls for VA to create its own list of certified schools.
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Washington
Hoover Commission
Veterans Administration
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Veterans Insurance Corporation
Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency
225 Tournament Seats To Be Sold
Approximately 225 tickets for the WIAA sectional basketball tournament here Friday and Saturday will go on sale at the high school office tonight. Tournament manager T. R. Holyoke says the sale opens at 7. Two tickets per applicant until sold out, with reserved seats at $2 each. 150 tickets allocated to each visiting school. Monroe students get priority on remaining tickets. Teams include Monroe, Brodhead, Cuba City, and Beloit, winners of district and regional play.
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T. R. Holyoke
Hoyoke
Holyoke
Monroe
Brodhead
Cuba City
Beloit
Winter Lingers As Snow Falls In Wisconsin
Cold to mild shifts noted as a March storm blankets northern Wisconsin with up to a foot of snow in La Crosse Superior Green Bay and Land O Lakes. Northeastern states report 23 deaths after a 20 hour wind and snow storm and a thaw begins.
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Monroe
Wisconsin
la Crosse
Superior
Green Bay
Land O’lakes
Connecticut
Nelly Bly Record Blazed Globe Trail
A historical look at world circumnavigation records from 1899 to 1947. Nelly Bly set a pioneering 72 days and change pace, while later flights across oceans used planes and refueling. The piece highlights notable trips by Wiley Post, Graf Zeppelin, Howard Hughes, and William Odom with dates and distances.
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Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Howard Hughes
Hollywood
Russia
William Odom
Milton Reynolds
Air Force
Nelly Bly
First World Flight Made with Help of Big Tanker Planes
Fort Worth reports the Lucky Lady II completed a non stop round the world flight powered by four B 29 tanker aircraft. The 14 crew members logged 23 108 miles in 94 hours 1 minute returning to Carswell air base.
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Seattle
Aleutians
India
England
United States
de Haviland
Friedrichshafen
Post
Fort Worth
Carswell
Air Force
Washington
Symington
James Gallagher
Tucson
Ariz
Azores Islands
Dhahran
Saudi Arabia
Azores
Philippines
Hawaii
Browntown Woman Mrs Dan Howder Dies at 86
Mrs Dan Howder 86 a Browntown resident died at 7 last night at Green County Home after months of decline. Ida Mae Drake daughter of Jefferson and Mahla Drake born Aug 22 1862 in Clarno township married Dan Howder in 1893. Survived by widower and brother Thomas Drake in California. Funeral 1:30 p m Friday Shriner Neushwander with Rev J E Seibert officiating. Burial Cadiz cemetery.
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Dan Howder
Browntown
Green County
Ida Mae Drake
Jefferson and
Mahla Drake
Clarno Township
California
Shriner-Neushwander
J. E. Seibert
McConnell United Brethren Church
Cadiz Cemetery
New Glarus Man Dies in Madison Heart Attack
Fred Heisler aged 74 was found dead in a Madison building at Truax Airport where he worked as a janitor. Death attributed to a heart attack. The body was taken to Zentner funeral home in New Glarus.
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New Glarus
Fred Heisler
Truax Airport
Madison
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Lower Manhattan
Central Park Zoo
William Blair and Co
Harley, Hayden and Co
Central Republic Co
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Elmer
Hollis Elmer
Frank A. Buehler
E. P. Adler
Lee Chain
Midwest
City
Medina
Here
Byron Center
Ozone Park
Queens
Fernandez
Janet Fay
Beck
Downing
Bill For Veterans Before Rules Group
Clarence R. Huebner
Hoover
Nelly Bly Record
Curtis E. Lemay
Strategy Air Command
Eighth Air Force
Glarus
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