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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: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Booth at the U.S.O. Carnival sponsered by the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club, featuring games of chance and a model train set-up. |
| Date: | 02 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Two women pose next to gambling machines at Buddy's Place, in the township of Rib Mountain. The bar operated as a house of prostitution. |
| Date: | 04 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Friday night, April 10th, 1942, at Clarence Sidesky's tavern, Route 3, Kenosha. |
| Date: | 04 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Friday night at the Star Bar and Grill Room, at the intersection of Highways 41 and 43 in Kenosha County. |
| 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; ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Governor Goodland conferring with District Attorney John Grindell and Sheriff Aloys Klaas about gambling in Grant County. |
| 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: | 03 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Philip G. Fox, 513 Virginia Terrace, professor of business administration at the University of Wisconsin, with a slot machine. Professor Fox is a well-kno... |
| Date: | 07 16 1946 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland meeting with Ellis H. Dana, Executive Vice-President of the Wisconsin Council of Churches in the Govenor's office. Ellis is congra... |
| 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: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of children pose on tricycles at a Civilian Defense Rally. Booths and crowds are visible in the background, including a game booth where you can "D... |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Four women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. One woman is thumbing her nose at the camera. The arrest w... |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman is led out by a State Agent during a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest warrants were for gambling and prostitution. The ... |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman turns her back on an agent as they enter the establishment where she worked at the beginning of a raid on many Hurley area bars. The arrest warrant... |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three women hide their faces as they walk in front of State Agents after exiting their place of business during a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establi... |
| Date: | 08 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Kathleen Napoli, held a "keeper of a house of ill fame," as she was finger printed by an FBI Agent on Wednesday. Her husband, Dominic, is in the Army.... |
| Date: | 07 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Seven women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest warrants were for gambling and prostitution. |
| Date: | 08 04 1942 |
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| Description: | A state agent arrests three women and one man, a bartender, in Jeanne's Chateau. A sweeping raid was staged on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest ... |
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