Wisconsin Gas & Electric Eyes Steam Heat Rate Hike
Dane County Hearings set for Sept 23 on a planned rate increase for steam heating supplied by Wisconsin Gas & Electric. About 225 downtown users face higher costs as the utility seeks new charges and possible discontinuance of the steam service.
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Wisconsin Gas & Electric
Wisconsin Public Service
Ion Today
Gay & Electric En
Wisconsin Ayc
Ia V. Shibur
Gag & Electric Co
Shibur
Waukesha
Downstown
Piant
Barstow Street
Hold Garner Rites Today
UVALDE Tex. Mrs John N Garner wife of former Vice President will have funeral services this afternoon at the family home. She died yesterday afternoon after a several year illness following a corneal condition. Her husband son Tully two nurses and a maid were at the bedside.
Goodbye to Ruth at Yankee Stadium crowds say farewell
Thousands file past Babe Ruth’s mahogany casket at Yankee Stadium as officials estimate up to 100000 mourners pass by in two-hour waves. Durocher, Dews, and other dignitaries attend. funeral plans include St Patrick’s Cathedral and burial at Gate of Heaven. Ruth’s widow chose the stadium for the public viewing and state farewell.
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Yankee Stadium
New York
Babej Ruth
America
Leo Durocher
New York Giants
Ruth
Durocher
Exebier
Charley McManun
Gate of Heaven
Vall Hala
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
A. 3B. Chandler
William Harridge
Yankees
Washington
Senators
Claire
Report of fire at Thompson home in West Lafila nove
Wisconsin Gas and Electric officials said reports of a stove fire at William H. Thompson's West Lafila nove residence were greatly exaggerated. No explosion or alarm occurred and damage was minor, caused by a defective pilot light on one stove.
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Wisconsin Gas & Electric Co
William H. Thompson
West Lafila Nove
Weather forecast and almanac notes amid garbled text
Readable portions describe a weather forecast with a cooler day and warmer trend, along with a rough almanac section listing sunrise and sunset times, temperatures, and celestial references such as Venus and Altair. Multiple fragments reference hours, dates, and degree indicators, but the readable facts are sparse and interleaved with errors.
Son Finds Body of Father In Wisconsin Home
Charles O Johnson 48 was found dead by his son Charles W Johnson in a basement in Milwaukee. Johnson, a World War I veteran and former telephone company employee, died by hanging last night around six. Survived by widow Ethelwyn and two sons, two sisters, and three brothers. Funeral Friday at Erling Larsen, 10 am, burial 2 pm at New Lisbon cemetery. Friends may call after 7 pm today. Yugoslav officer Col Gen Arso Yovanovich shot and killed while fleeing into Romania. He was former chief of staff of the Yugoslav army and ranked No 2 in military importance to Marshall Tito.
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Charles O. Johnson
Frame Ave
Charles W
Johnson
Telephone Company
Ethelwyn
Charles
Donald Alan
May Johnson
Calirfornia
Gladys Thompson
Millwaukkee
Leon
Tomah
Wis
Roy
South Bend
Erling Larsen
Dwight Moody Bahr
New Libson, Wis
Belgrade
W.A
Ministry of the Interior
Arso Yovanovich
Romania
Yovanovich
Marshall Tito
Deputies Seek Nude Man at Westmoor Golf Links
Deputies seek a stark naked man who leapt from bushes near the fourth hole at Westmoor country club, scaring women on Ladies Day. The suspect fled into bushes and escaped in a black 1937 Ford parked nearby. the vehicle had no visible license details.
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Sheriff's Department
Westmoor Country Slab
Danube Pact Adopted Amid Western Abstentions
The Soviet drafted Danube convention passed 7 to 0 at Belgrade with the United States Britain and France abstaining. Western powers allege it secures continued Soviet control of Europe’s great inland waterway. Marshall announced the US would send 125 enlisted men to Palestine as observers and declined a larger troop request. Separate: Wisconsin Public Service Corp. authorized to issue 5.25 million in first mortgage bonds for postwar plant expansion.
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Belgrade
Cavendish Cannon
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Europe
Andrei Vishinsky
Washington
George C. Marshall
Danube
Marshall
Palestine
Folke Bernadotte
State Department
Oksana
Kosenkina
Mihail I. Samarin
Madison
U.R
State Public Service Commission
Wisconsin Public Service Corp
Milwaukee
PSC
Lloyd Peffer Freed in Court This Afternoon
Lloyd Peffer walked into municipal court facing fourth degree manslaughter in the drowning of Delbert Meyers. After Meyers's widow Fern asked to drop prosecution and new testimony emerged, Prosecutor Williams dismissed the case and Peffer left a free man.
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Lloyd Peffer
Delbert Meyers
Caledonia Route 2
Dist
Homer J. Williams
Meyers
Fern
Williams
Beffer
Ralph Kallenberger
Little Muskego Lake
Peffer
Mrs. Meyers
Petter
Waukesha
Atty, Williams
Leslie PB. Rock
Alvin H. Johnson
B. L. Tharinger
Milwaukee
Myers
Charles Swidler
Milwaukee Crimina
Saya
Chriscraft
Scott Lowry
Williams Shen
Lowry
School Inmate Faces Court on Rape Count
Donald Karl nineteen, inmate of Wisconsin School for Boys, faced a municipal court preliminary hearing on a charge of attempting to rape a matron at the school. Bond set at fifteen hundred dollars. he was remanded to sheriff custody after arraignment. A school authority said the incident occurred last Thursday when he followed the matron from the kitchen into the dining room and seized her with a knife held to her neck. The woman’s statement on Friday said her screams drove him away.
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Donald Karl
Wisconsin School For Boys
Karl
Waukesha
John Burie
Scott Lowry
Burie
Racine Ave
Caroline
Waukesha County Fair Day Draws Big Crowds and Praise
Waukesha County residents enjoyed Centennial Exposition day with a 30 car cavalcade escorted by police to the grounds. The day featured a water ballet by seven local girls, dairy cattle displays, a grandstand pageant, and county leaders calling the event a big success as Milton Button of the state agriculture department welcomed attendees. Local officials including Vernon Gaspar and congressional representative Glenn Davis attended and greeted the crowd.
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Howard ‘Nyquist
Milton ‘Button
State Department of Agriculture
Richard Sylveater
Sylvester
Vernon Gaspar
Glenn Davia
Gaspar
Button
George Tuehring
Freeman
Waukesha
Boy Scout
WAUX
Waukesha County
County Board of Supervisors
Milton Button
Honeyager
Dumbeck
Oconomonos
William Zillmer
Glenn Davis
Funeral plans for Marvin Duel long-time state official
Marvin Duel 60 longtime head of the state insurance commission died here this morning after a brief illness. A former Fond du Lac state senator and Fond du Lac county superintendent of schools from 1935 to 1921 he was born near Fond du Lac. Survivors include his widow and a son both of Madison, and two brothers and two sisters.
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Madison
Marvin Duel
Duel
Diel
Fond du Lac
Eldorado
Seven Year Old Tortured In Comic Book Reenactment
In New Albany Indiana three playmates aged six to eight abducted a seven year old preacher’s son and tied a rope around his neck. They forced him into a woods at knife point and struck him with lighted matches as they acted out a war scene. The boy escaped with help from a search party. Juvenile authorities considered charges but had not acted at this time.
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New Albany
Ind
U.R
Frank Kelsey
Floyd County
Waukesha teachers mark in service plan before school
Letters to teachers outline four day in service training before opening on September 8. Miss Rebecca Watson explains orientation aids preparation and problem discussion. New staff meet Supt. Lewis and principals September 1. TB testing and meetings follow. A teachers association picnic caps events September 2.
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Waukesha
Rebecca Watson
Watson
R. P. Lewis
J. BE. Worthington
Miss Watson
Supt. Lewis
Clarice Kline
The
Waukesha Teachers Association
Carl Waller
Madison
Waller
Waukesha Teachers
Merrill Hills Country Club
Elaine Huebner
Waukesha Board of Health
Wesley Schroeder
Nitsea
State Fair Party Group in Waukesha Accident
Six people were injured, two seriously, when a caravan to the Centennial exposition near West Allis crashed on Highway 30 near Goerke's Corners. Injured include Dane county officials and local residents. Governor Rennebohm and Justice Rosenberry escaped harm as the convoy halted at the arterial sign. The 11-car caravan left Madison at 8:45 am. the incident disrupted Governor’s Day ceremonies briefly.
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West Allis
Dane County
C. A. Sorenson
Horeb
Dane County Board
G. A. Sorenson
Philip Gordon
Verona
Grover Broadfact
Wisconsin
Oscar Rennebohm
Marvin B. Rosenberry
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Goerke's Corners
Edward H. Fischer
Ton Jaeger
Madison
Tudge Evans
Memorial Hospital
Freeman
Maurice Parks
Paul Robinson
Parks
Judge Evans
Emery Oliver
Better Businesa Bureau
Oliver
Sorenson
Atty
Broadfoot
Sheriff's Department
Pewaukee
Evans
Robinson
Atty. Broadfoot
Exposition Grounds
State Motor Vehicle Department
Rennebahm
Justice Rosenberry
Fort
Death takes former Baraboo resident Mrs Mayme Wheeler De Lautelle
Baraboo held funeral services this afternoon for Mrs Mayme Wheeler De Lautelle former Waukesha resident She is survived by her son Francis and two sisters Mrs Eidith Moore and Miss Cora Wheeler of South Haven Michigan State conservation wardens arrested 247 people for violations in July with 242 guilty one lost three dismissed and one pending Electrical accidents killed 16 in Wisconsin March 30 to July 30 according to the state industrial commission safety and sanitation division
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Baraboo
Mayme Wheeler de Lautelle
Waukesha
Francis
Eidith Moore
Cora Wheeler
South Haven
Mich
Madison
U.R
Conservation Department
U.K
Wiscon
State Industrial Commission
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Vernon Center
Robert Fryda
Sussex
Exposition
Ernest Fryda
Walckeshats
Amos
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Altair
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