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Auto Buy Week

Date: 05 02 1958
Description: Winston Smith and his son, Wade, sit in their restored 1909 Cadillac automobile before the "You Auto Buy Now" parade.
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Wisconsin State Journal Young Columbus Leaves for Hawaii

Date: 12 26 1958
Description: William Scobie, age 16 of Brodhead, holds a flight bag while embarking an airplane. Scobie won a trip to Hawaii for selling the most subscriptions to the <...
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Young Columbus Winner

Date: 03 26 1959
Description: Newspaper carrier Donald Fay, 15, of Edgerton is the winner of the Young Columbus trip to Italy sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal and its Sun...
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Subscription Contest Winners

Date: 06 23 1959
Description: 44 young carrier salesmen for the Wisconsin State Journal posing in front of a bus that will take them off "for three days packed full of fun in Chi...
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Bryko Liquid Cleaner Container Boxes

Date: 06 24 1959
Description: Two men pose by a wall of highly stacked boxes, each marked with a large "BK" logo. One of the men holds a pen and is bent over a notebook.
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West High Y-Teens at Flower Show

Date: 11 07 1959
Description: Lisa Rutherford (left), chairman of the West High Y-Teen Club and chairman of the ticket sellers for the flower show presented by the Wisconsin-Upper Michi...
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Madison West Optimist Club Peanut Sale

Date: 09 13 1960
Description: Four members of the Madison West Optimist Club demonstrate their sales technique to sell peanuts to raise funds for boys' activities. Left to right are: Bl...
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National Sales Executives Rally

Date: 10 04 1960
Description: Leaders of the National Sales Executives Club of Madison go over plans for the annual fall sales rally. Left to right: Ernest Haar (Ray-O-Vac), Harry Manze...
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Winner of Shopping Spree Contest

Date: 05 27 1964
Description: William Coughlin, winner of an A & P supermarket shopping spree, with his wife Barbara and their seven children posing in their living room with the $998 w...
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Patrick Stoycheff

Date: 03 05 1958
Description: Portrait of Patrick Stoycheff, who won an all-expense paid 10-day trip to Portugal, Spain and New York City for selling 150 new subscriptions to the Wis...
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Savings Bonds Sales Campaign

Date: 05 14 1958
Description: "Airman 2/C Don R. Roberts, Truax Field, is shown purchasing his portion of 'Share in America' — 15 U.S. $50 savings bonds. Roberts, a native of Wichita Fa...
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We Saw You . . . at Life Insurance Meeting

Date: 11 21 1960
Description: The annual meeting of the Madison chapter of the National Association of Life Underwriters of Wisconsin is held at the Cuba Club supper club. A full hous...
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We Saw You . . . at Life Insurance Meeting

Date: 11 21 1960
Description: The annual meeting of the Madison chapter of the National Association of Life Underwriters of Wisconsin is held at the Cuba Club supper club. Main speake...
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We Saw You . . . at Life Insurance Meeting

Date: 11 21 1960
Description: The annual meeting of the Madison chapter of the National Association of Life Underwriters of Wisconsin is held at the Cuba Club supper club. A full house ...

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