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| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A woman overlooks the Labor-at-the-Lakefront festival next to a banner that reads "Buy Union," "Buy Made in USA," and "Keep the Heart of America Beating." |
| Date: | 08 06 1987 |
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| Description: | Two women coax a stubborn calf at the State Fair. |
| Date: | 07 16 1987 |
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| Description: | Four boys trap hogs to get them into their stalls at the Waukesha County Fair. |
| Date: | 06 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Aimee Weiss(left), 10, and Darby Cusick, 11, both of Elm Grove, take a spin Thursday on one of the rides at Wirth Park. |
| Date: | 06 19 1983 |
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| Description: | Tina Polley looked through a pair of large clown eyeglasses as she ate an ice cream cone at an Ice Cream and Pie Social at St. Francis Episcopal Church. |
| Date: | 07 26 1981 |
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| Description: | Maynard Entringer of South Milwaukee is awarded the World Championship of the Kraut Eating Contest by the Queen of the Kraut Festival, Sharon Kerkman of Bu... |
| Date: | 08 03 1981 |
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| Description: | Despite rain and fog, people turned out to enjoy a street festival sponsored by the Guadalupe Center at 239 W. Washington Street in Milwaukee. There were e... |
| Date: | 07 10 1985 |
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| Description: | People, including a very eager little girl, stand around a concession stand to buy popcorn, peanuts, cotton candy, snow-cones, and other snacks at the 50th... |
| Date: | 1989 |
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| Description: | Red Ford Mustangs are a center of attention at the 1989 Iola Old Car Show. |
| Date: | 07 24 1983 |
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| Description: | Tammy Meiller, 16, of the Blue Eagles 4-H Club, looks over a display of vegetables in the Milwaukee County 4-H Fair at the Mayfair Mall Shopping Center. |
| Date: | 08 1987 |
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| Description: | "A packed grandstand at the Dodge County Fairgrounds watched as garden tractors roared down the straightaway." |
| Date: | 11 1984 |
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| Description: | Doraine Priest gives a live oil painting demonstration at the Dodge County Extension Homemakers Holiday Fair. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Unused ticket packet for the Central Wisconsin State Fair in Marshfield. There is one ticket for each day from Wednesday, September 1 through Monday, (Labo... |
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