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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: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, with confiscated whiffle board and roulette wheel. |
| 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; ... |
| Date: | 02 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Frank Deischel, Wausau, President of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, standing with an illegal slot machine in Deischel's tavern. |
| Date: | 02 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the... |
| Date: | 04 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Man playing an illegal 25 cent slot machine in the Valley Tavern, on Highway 42, two miles north of Kenosha. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Silver Arrow Tavern on U.S. Highway 12. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Illegal gambling machines in Kelley's Tavern, in the city of Lake Geneva. |
| Date: | 06 13 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Dell View hotel. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Three illegal gambling machines in the Green Parrot Tavern on Highway 12, north of Elkhorn. The machines are in a case, which the proprietor closes when he... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | An illegal gambling machine in a tavern. |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in the Brass Ball Tavern. |
| 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 04 1942 |
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| Description: | An illegal gambling machine in a dining area of a restaurant. A waiter is visible through a doorway on the left. |
| Date: | 04 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Five illegal gambling machines in Gardner's Cocktail Lounge at La Grange, on U.S. Highway 12. There are two 50¢ slot machines, one 25¢ slot machine, one 10... |
| 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: | 02 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Two illegal gambling machines in the front dining room of Jones Steak House, located on County Trunk N, southwest of Wausau. The building is owned by Sheri... |
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