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| Date: | 11 22 1932 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Emery, 11, wins hero medal for saving Evelyn Schulz, 9, from drowning at second ward beach on Lake Mendota. Emery would later serve as Chief of the ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert S. Lincoln, 3118 Buena Vista Street, receives an award from police officer Lester Shore for her "heroine efforts" in saving 3-year-old Kurt Wis... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length cabinet card portrait of Captain N.A. Peterson, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who was master and part owner of the schooner “Selt”... |
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