First Wisconsin National Guard unit mobilizes for missing child search
Co K of Monroe conducts the states first postwar mobilization with 36 men assembling at 3 30 am to join a search for 2 ½ year old Donald Friedrich near Monroe. The run includes assignments to Green and Mt Vernon cemeteries and a parade in Madison.
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Green Cemetery
Doth Coplien
Mt. Vernon Cemetery
Juda
John C. Johnstone
Truaxfield
Madison
Co. K
Leslie Schwitz
Rodney C. Johnson
Theodore J. Burgy
Monroe High School
Burgy
Church Membership Share Shapes U S Population
The article notes about 250000 churches in the United States and claims they collectively include roughly half of the population as members, reflecting a broad religious landscape.
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The
United States
Oleo Tax Fight Draws Wisconsin Cheese Leaders
Senator Wiley says oleo tax repeal would create dairy chaos and higher prices. Prairie Center cheese factory in Dane county joins the Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Cheese Producers association. Kraft Foods reps visit Monroe. production of American cheese in April totals 71.3 million pounds, down from 1947.
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Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Cheese Producers Association
Prairie Center Cheese Factory
Perry Township
Dane County
Norman Peterson
John Thorson
John Grossen
Kraft Foods
Monroe
Monroe Center
Jack Duffey
Chicago
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
New York State
Canada
Retired cheesemaker long in Lamont area turns 78
A longtime local cheesemaker who arrived from Switzerland in 1890 will celebrate his 78th birthday on June 14. He learned the trade from a brother in Lamont and later produced limburger brick and Swiss cheeses, though a 1904 leg amputation somewhat slowed his work.
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Switzerland
Lamont
Fassbind
Cudahy Gamblers Face Court After Raid
Twenty men were arraigned in court after a police raid on gambling in Cudahy. Seventeen suspects were from Milwaukee, with authorities continuing the case and potential charges pending.
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Cudahy
Milwaukee
Court on gambling charges after raid on Packard tavern
A raid on a upstairs room above a Packard avenue tavern led to gambling charges. Police seized two loud speakers two phones betting sheets tickets a pool table and a card table. Jack Ewea 38 Milwaukee keeper of a gambling house released on 150 bond others on 15 bond each. Robert Gray discovered the Columbia river in 1792.
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Packard Avenue
Cudahy
Kets
Jack Ewea
Milwaukee
Robert Gray
Columbia River
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Swift
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Kraft’s Cheese
Jane Parker
Dean's
Bly
Idaho
A - Penn Window Cleaner
Veal
Lake Trout
Pure Ann Page
Encore Brand Egg Noodles
Sultana Brand
Lake
PERCH
Rozen Pollock
Dear
Superior
Salerno's
Swanson
National
Cek
Woodbury
DR. Price
Ozen
Cello
Alabama
Florida Juice Oranges
Calif
Istan Valentine
Kellogg's Variety Pack
Bargarine
Carte
By Helen Steurs
Joseph Bloomer
Jefferson Township
K. M. Autrey
Department of
Gottlieb Schneeberger, Brod
Carl Fassbind
City Hotel
Monroe Cash Market
Rudy Maurer
Union
Benker
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