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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 01 1924 |
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| Description: | Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i... |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A man and woman posed at the bar in Nesbitt's Highway Tavern, on Highway 42, North of Kenosha. Gambling machines can be seen on the left. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
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| Description: | Sheriff Fred Simon and unidentified man in the process of destroying slot machines. |
| 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: | 04 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in the Paris Gardens, 6 miles west of Kenosha, on Highway 43. Three man area sitting at the bar. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of men involved in a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The face of the arresting officer has been blacked out. The arrest warrants ... |
| Date: | 07 04 1942 |
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| Description: | State Agent (left, with face blacked out to prevent future identification) as he seized the operator of the roulette table at the Ritz Bar after a sweeping... |
| Date: | 08 1993 |
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| Description: | "The media coverage was incredible when Les Robins and Colleen DeVries receive their checks." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man fishing from the pier at Nelson Point in Peninsula State Park. Fish Creek is seen across the bay. Dr. Welcker's Casino is the ... |
| Date: | 1984 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large muskelunge (muskie), badge number 315 and clad in cowboy boots with spurs, that takes control with his six-shoot... |
| Date: | 03 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Police and state agents take a gaming machine out the door of the Wagon Wheel tavern, 203 East Washington avenue. |
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