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| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Women are booked for prostitution by state agents at the Iron County jail after vice raids at Hurley-area taverns on a Tuesday night. |
| Date: | 02 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Two women pose next to gambling machines at Buddy's Place, in the township of Rib Mountain. The bar operated as a house of prostitution. |
| Date: | 02 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Frank Deischel, Wausau, President of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, standing with an illegal slot machine in Deischel's tavern. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a woman as she was loaded into the agent's car after a raid at Rae's Blackhawk Bar. She is hiding her face in her coat. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman is led out by a State Agent during a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest warrants were for gambling and prostitution. The ... |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman turns her back on an agent as they enter the establishment where she worked at the beginning of a raid on many Hurley area bars. The arrest warrant... |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three women hide their faces as they walk in front of State Agents after exiting their place of business during a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establi... |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Kathleen Napoli, held a "keeper of a house of ill fame," as she was finger printed by an FBI Agent on Wednesday. Her husband, Dominic, is in the Army.... |
| Date: | 07 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Seven women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest warrants were for gambling and prostitution. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A state agent arrests three women and one man, a bartender, in Jeanne's Chateau. A sweeping raid was staged on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest ... |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Five women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest warrants were for gambling and prostitution. |
| Date: | 04 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Man playing an illegal 25 cent slot machine in the Valley Tavern, on Highway 42, two miles north of Kenosha. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Silver Arrow Tavern on U.S. Highway 12. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Illegal gambling machines in Kelley's Tavern, in the city of Lake Geneva. |
| Date: | 06 13 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Dell View hotel. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Green Parrot Tavern on Highway 12, north of Elkhorn. The machines are in a case, which the proprietor closes when he... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | An illegal gambling machine in a tavern. |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in the Brass Ball Tavern. |
| Date: | 03 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in a tavern on Highway 41, about one mile south of the Racine County Line. A man in a hat stands on the left, facing away. |
| Date: | 06 14 1942 |
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| Description: | A sign explaining the rules for an illegal dice game at the Del-Bar Tavern on Highway 12 between Delton and Wisconsin Dells. |
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