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Green Sheet Costume
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Amanda Basile of Milwaukee's Northwest side dressed as the Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet for Halloween. She made the costume with her mother Penny Chapman by dying a sheet green and fastening green sheet articles to it. She is also wearing a Green Sheet cap.
October 31, 1987
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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