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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 04 09 1945 |
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| Description: | Unidentified injured boy in hospital bed after surviving a quarry blast while playing with stolen dynamite, loaded into "trench motar" made of BB shot, and... |
| Date: | 04 09 1945 |
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| Description: | A.M. Mickelson, 10 N. Owen Dr., inspecting the scene of the explosion at the base of Sunset point where three Madison boys were badly burned while playing ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Spectators watch as black smoke pours from the burning second floor of the Pyramid Motor Company at 434 West Gilman Street after a gas tank explosion that ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Calvin Beverly, age 40, of 807 Mound Street. Beverly was one of seven employees of the Pyramid Motor Company, located at 434 West Gilman Street... |
| Date: | 01 05 1958 |
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| Description: | View of the badly damaged house at left, and a pile of rubble at right where the home of William and Gladys McGrath once stood. Both McGraths were killed i... |
| Date: | 06 10 1958 |
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| Description: | Police and spectators watch as firemen battle a blaze at Brandes Heating Co., 2046 Winnebago Street. |
| Date: | 09 25 1960 |
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| Description: | Neighbors help clean up the rubble at the site of Kellor's store and garage on Highway 14 (Oregon Road) in the Lakeview district 8 miles south of Madison. ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1960 |
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| Description: | The Kellor's Grocery Store and Garage on Highway 14 (Oregon Road) in the Lakeview district 8 miles south of Madison was demolished September 19 by a blast ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1960 |
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| Description: | Carroll Kellor, right, talks to Oregon Fire Chief Norman Champion after escaping from the rubble of his explosion-wrecked store on Highway 14 (Oregon Road)... |
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