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Cap Pistol Legalization

Date: 07 03 1953
Description: After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th...
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31st Annual East-Central Wisconsin Golf Association Tournament

Date: 07 18 1953
Description: Everett Robinson (left), Lake Ripley Country Club, Cambridge, and William Rhyme, Portage Country Club, examine the scoreboard before starting their senior ...
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Four Lakes Council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps

Date: 10 1953
Description: Clarence H. Beebe, executive director of the Four Lakes Council Boy Scout drum and bugle corps, explains application blanks to prospective members Jim Gree...
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Two youthful hunters, Denny Reul and Tom Goedell of Madison, watching Jerry Teesdale pointing out the vital points a hunter must hit to get his buck at a t...
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Learning to Drive

Date: 07 01 1954
Description: Two young people are examining a wall chart depicting traffic lanes, cross walks, and intersections. There are movable adhesive rectangles representing car...
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Captain Leo Lewis, inspector-instructor at the Naval-Marine Corps Reserve Training Center in Madison, points out the correct way to fire a rifle from a pro...
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Ice Fishing on Salmo Pond

Date: 01 1954
Description: Mrs. Arthur Fecht, Highland, attaches bait to her line while ice fishing on Salmo Pond near Black Earth.
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Young Badger Football Fan

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Billy Haase, two-and-a-half-year-old nephew of University of Wisconsin cheerleader Dick Onstead, is decked out in a "W" sweater at the football game betwee...
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Shrine Temple Ceremonial

Date: 10 1954
Description: Though the portrait of Zor Shrine Potentate Laurien Caldwell (Janesville) at the Shriner's 67th annual fall ceremonial in Madison appeared in the Wiscon...
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We Saw You . . . Watching Dairy Caravan

Date: 02 01 1955
Description: School children from the Madison area are among the first visitors at the opening of the $100,000 Dairy Caravan at the State Capitol. Gov. Walter Kohler (r...
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Wisconsin - Marquette Football Game

Date: 09 29 1956
Description: The scoreboard at Camp Randall showing the final score of the football game between Wisconsin and Marquette. It was Milt Bruhn's first game as Wisconsin's ...

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