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Slot Machine Seizure

Date: 01 1924
Description: Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i...
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Milwaukee Road Booth at U.S.O. Carnival

Date: 11 07 1944
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.
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Destruction of Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 02 19 1949
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...
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Agent Arresting Three Women and One Man

Date: 08 04 1942
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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Illegal Gambling Machine

Date: 04 04 1942
Description: An illegal gambling machine in a dining area of a restaurant. A waiter is visible through a doorway on the left.

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