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| Date: | 12 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Three girls wearing Wisconsin Safety Patrol t-shirts and belts pretending to show a girl that it is all right to cross the street. |
| Date: | 02 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered around the shore of Monona Bay where Joel Hansen drowned, and his half brother Tommy Blankenheim was rescued. |
| Date: | 02 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Dane County Traffic Lieutenant Arden C. Pope teaches grade school students the rules of riding bicycles and walking safely on highways. |
| Date: | 09 04 1956 |
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| Description: | Patrica Ann Patzer sits in a chair holding a teddy bear and doll. She recently fell 35 feet from a porch window to the ground. |
| Date: | 02 25 1959 |
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| Description: | A tow truck retrieves a car that had gone into the ditch in the median of Midvale Boulevard south of University Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 28 1959 |
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| Description: | An Illinois couple, unaware of Madison's pedestrian safety laws, were seriously injured by a car while jaywalking across East Washington Avenue. Police and... |
| Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Three women attend an event to display Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary projects. They include, from left to right, Ina Marlow, Emily Sprague,... |
| Date: | 02 05 1951 |
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| Description: | As Paoli grade school children watch, Lieutenant Arden C. Pope, head of the Dane County traffic safety division, presents badges and belts for school patro... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) waiting for rescue workers to free her right leg caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Her father Michael B. Palmer, at ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Patricia Ann Palmer (2) is rescued from an abandoned drainage pipe at Truax Park. A rescue crew member carries her bundled in a blanket to a police car for... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Young children inspect the hole where Patricia Ann Palmer's (2) leg was caught in an unused drainage pipe at Truax Park. Rescue workers cut the hole in the... |
| Date: | 03 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Bobby Jones (Arena) is receiving an award for his life-saving efforts in the Governor's Office on March 18th, 1958. Bobby is showing his father the award a... |
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