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Opening Day Fishing Season
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Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on May 1, 1976 with Sid's caption: "The Atwood-Ave Clean Fresh Water Anglers are holding their annual recital on Opening Day, thanks to Doc Fosmark, Jim Karabis, Ralph Farrington and Walt Kleeman. How sweet it is! The Bait Bucket Bongo, the Fish Net Sonata, the Spinning Rod Minuet and the Beer Bottle Rhapsody. It's Opening Day for Fishing!" Sid's authorship is in the lower right corner.
1976
Boyum, Sid, 1914-1991
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WHi 123051
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