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Carrier Salesmen Subscription Contestants

Date: 03 31 1959
Description: Four Madison Newspapers, Inc., carrier salesmen (or newspaper home delivery boys) looking over possible awards for new subscriptions, such as prizes, cash,...
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Carrier Salesmen Subscription Contestants

Date: 03 31 1959
Description: Four Madison Newspapers, Inc., carrier salesmen (or newspaper home delivery boys) looking over possible awards for new subscriptions, such as prizes, cash,...
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Blackhawk Council of Girl Scouts Art Contest

Date: 04 08 1959
Description: Top winners in the "Home Frontier" art contest sponsored by the Blackhawk Council of Girl Scouts are Betsy Van Roo, left, daughter of George and Mary Greel...
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Madison Art Guild's Annual Art Salon

Date: 04 08 1959
Description: First prize winners at the Madison Art Guild's Annual Art Salon include, from left to right, Eloise Haas, Ellsworth Mack, Dorothy Angevine, and Rea Ragatz.
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Subscription Contest Winners

Date: 06 23 1959
Description: 44 young carrier salesmen for the Wisconsin State Journal posing in front of a bus that will take them off "for three days packed full of fun in Chi...
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Rural Arts and Crafts Show

Date: 01 04 1960
Description: Mrs. Wilbur Schoephorster shows her oil painting, "Hunter's Cabin," which was awarded one of 38 top state honors in last year's Rural Arts and Crafts Show....
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Randy Olson holds his fourth-prize winning landscape painting at the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Admiring the painting are three...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Contest judge Mrs. Daisy Breyer (left) and Central High school art teacher Mrs. Merrie Wisiol (right) admire the painting of Beverly Fries, a fifth-place w...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Sandy Rasmussen discusses her first-prize winning painting in the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders with Ruth Allcott, art director of ...
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Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest

Date: 03 23 1960
Description: Portrait of two prize winners in the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Mary Jo Ylitalo (left) won second prize, and Sarah Christenson ...
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Contest Winner George Byrne

Date: 04 17 1960
Description: George Byrne, center, a Wisconsin State Journal carrier in Brooklyn, arrives at the airport after a twelve day trip to New York, Paris, and London. He won ...
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We Saw You . . . at Carrier Boys' Picnic

Date: 06 30 1954
Description: Madison Newspaper, Inc. hosts a picnic to recognize newspaper carriers, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in any kind of weather. Gregor...
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We Saw You . . . at Carrier Boys' Picnic

Date: 06 30 1954
Description: Madison Newspaper, Inc. hosts a picnic to recognize newspaper carriers, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in any kind of weather. Duane ...
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Newspaper Carriers Hear About Young Columbus Contest

Date: 01 18 1964
Description: Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carriers listen to Vern Wiersma, 17 N. Butler Sreet, 1963 Young Columbus winner, explaining the Young Columbus contest fo...
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Magazine Subscription Contest for Paper Carriers

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Three Wisconsin State Journal carriers entered in a magazine subscription contest get a pep talk about getting subscriptions from Bob Neuendorf, a d...
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Magazine Subscription Contest for Paper Carriers

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Jack Kitchens, a district manager for the Wisconsin State Journal, explains how the contest to get new magazine subscriptions works to three newspap...
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Magazine Subscription Contest for Paper Carriers

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Wisconsin State Journal carriers Jim Grosse (left) and Mike Ferm dream of winning the top prize in the magazine subscription contest — a one-week va...
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Magazine Subscription Contest for Paper Carriers

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Jim Kennedy, Tom Borchert, and Eugene Nelson (left to right) inspect some of the many prizes for the magazine subscription contest sponsored by the Wisc...
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WSJ Recipe Contest

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Looking through hundreds of entries received for the Wisconsin State Journal's cookbook recipe contest are Jo Ann Beier (left), WSJ women's editor, ...
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Law Firm Secretary to be Queen at University of Notre Dame

Date: 10 04 1957
Description: Carol Laufenberg, a Madison law firm secretary, boarding a plane headed for the University of Notre Dame where she will be queen of the Arts and Letters Ba...

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