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"Shoplifting" Seminars, Sponsored By Kroger Stores

Date: 09 15 1959
Description: The Park Hotel was host to 26 Madison area Kroger store managers where seminars were held to study shoplifting. City, county and area law enforcement offic...
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Bishop O'Connor Returns from European Trip

Date: 09 28 1959
Description: Several thousand Catholic students turn out to welcome Bishop O'Connor back from his two month trip to Europe.
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Dog Obedience Trials

Date: 09 12 1959
Description: Ted Wade of West Chicago, Illinois, gives a drink to a St. Bernard dog during the all-breed obedience trials sponsored by the Lakeland Dog Training Club of...
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Bishop O'Connor Returns from European Trip

Date: 09 28 1959
Description: A priest genuflects while welcoming Bishop O'Connor back to Madison from his European trip. The bishop traveled in a 100 car motorcade from the railroad st...
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University of Wisconsin 1959 Football Leaders

Date: 08 31 1959
Description: Head Coach Milt Bruhn is flanked by Wisconsin football co-captains Bob Zeman of Wheaton Illinois, left, and Jerry (Sparky) Stalcup of Rockford, Illinois.
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Glendale Community Baptist Church Cornerstone Laying

Date: 09 21 1959
Description: A group of men gathering to lay the cornerstone for the new Glendale Community Baptist Church at 5020 Maher. The men include, left to right: Allen Strang, ...
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W Club Day

Date: 09 26 1959
Description: Two of Wisconsin's athletic greats watch Saturday's football game together. Chris Steinmetz, left, is the "Father of Wisconsin Basketball," and Pat O'Dea w...
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W Club Day

Date: 09 26 1959
Description: Rain dampens fans' spirit as they nestled in the shelter of the field house under the scoreboard during the first quarter of the W Club Day football game.
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Wisconsin Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta...
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Seratoma Club Members Selling Brooms

Date: 11 13 1959
Description: Five members of the Madison Seratoma Club, including, left to right, William Rowland, William Murphy, Harold Hueschen, Ray Sweeney, and Wendall Ward, holdi...
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Deer Hunters Display Trophies on Car

Date: 11 1959
Description: Danny Sands and Dick Goldfield (right) standing by a wood-sided station wagon with two deer tied to the front hood lid, and a third deer on top of the car....
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Sequoya Branch Library Ground-Breaking

Date: 11 23 1959
Description: Individuals breaking ground for the new Sequoya branch of the Madison Public Library at the Midvale Plaza shopping center. The building is being constructe...
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New York Governor Visit

Date: 12 15 1959
Description: New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is greeted by two former governors of Wisconsin at the Madison Municipal Airport. The potential presidential candidate...
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New Fire Trucks Undergo Tests

Date: 12 07 1959
Description: Madison's two new fire department pumper trucks, purchased for a total of $43,128, are being tested at the Tenney Park Locks by Assistant Fire Chief John H...
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Sunset Village Community Club Halloween Party

Date: 10 31 1959
Description: Mike Feifarek, Linda Houden, Carol Braton, Jackie Edwards, and Susan Arawinko attend the Sunset Village Community Club Halloween Party.
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Sunset Village Community Club Halloween Party

Date: 10 31 1959
Description: Fairy princess Patty Goggin is about to change the bunny Katherine Becker into a beautiful girl if she isn't stopped by the witch Susan Devitt during the S...
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Sunset Village Community Club Halloween Party

Date: 10 31 1959
Description: Jeff Isenring (left), Jean Cox, Nancy Willett, Jean Willett (the ghost) and Karen Olson attend the Sunset Village Community Club Halloween Party.
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Sunset Village Community Club Halloween Party

Date: 10 31 1959
Description: Children wore costumes while attending the Sunset Village Community Club Halloween Party. From left to right are Mary Moore, Nancy Shell, Jane Albert, Shar...
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Youth For Christ Delegates

Date: 12 31 1959
Description: 26 of the 33 Madison area youths who attended evangelist Billy Graham's three-day Youth for Christ Convention in Washington, D.C. posing for a group portra...
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Girl on Seesaw

Date: 10 29 1959
Description: Susan Thomsen smiling from high atop a seesaw on a warm October day while playing at Yahara Place Park near her home at 502 Dunning Street. Houses in the b...

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