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Young Worker Sands Wooden Wagon Wheel Section

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Description: Young man - possibly a teenager - sanding a section of a wooden wagon wheel with a belt sander at International Harvester's Accurate Engineering Works.
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Police Chief McCormick and Kenneth Jevens

Date: 11 22 1945
Description: Police Chief William H. McCormick is shown giving eighty dollars to Kenneth Jevens, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Jevens, 2318 Sommers Avenue. Th...
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Smilingest Trio

Date: 03 07 1949
Description: "There are three good reasons for the three beaming smiles shown. Jack Ihde, left, is smiling because he found $176 in cash and $310 in checks, returned th...
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West High Girls' Club Stuffs Roundy's Fun Fund Letters

Date: 11 10 1958
Description: For their annual project, the West High School Girls' Club, a service club, stuffs the general "Roundy's Fun Fund" letters.
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Optimists Clubs Support Plan Aiding Hard-to-Reach Youth

Date: 12 29 1958
Description: A check for $400 is being handed over to the State Department of Public Welfare by the Associated Optimists Clubs to help in a study of "hard-to-reach yout...
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Roundy's Fun Fund Thanks Girl for Help

Date: 06 16 1959
Description: Roundy Coughlin and the Roundy's Fun Fund committee thanks Suzy Peterson, past president of the ninth grade "Y" Teen Club at West High School. The group of...
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William L. Mitchell after Being Sworn in as Commissioner of Social Security

Date: 1959
Description: Caption: "William L Mitchell after being sworn in as Commissioner of Social Security. From left to right: his son, George Bigge, Ellen Woodward, Mitchell, ...
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Warren Flisram the Honest Teen

Date: 02 28 1958
Description: Warren Flisram (16, rural Brooklyn) is receiving $100 for his honesty in finding and helping recover $13,500 in cash along a railroad right-of-way on Janua...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: The Madison Altrusa club gives a summer scholarship each year to a talented Madison student in honor of the late Lucy Irene Buck, a former club president a...

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