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...Winnebago County, Illinois, which includes Rockford (pop. 84,637). The city, which has had 163 cases and 19 deaths, waited last week to find out whether a spraying with DDT (TIME, Aug. 27), does any good. New cases fell off a little...
...Winnebago who spent five years at Pennsylvania's famed Carlisle Indian School as a second-string quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half...
...starts, around the world last year. Pilot Pangborn was at the field to see his old ship take off for its second transatlantic hop. After the takeoff. the big white plane was seen over Cape Cod, then 1,200 mi. on its course toward Cape Finisterre by the tanker Winnebago, then 400 mi. from Europe by the S. S. France. And then it was seen no more. On the night that The American Nurse was supposed to have landed in Rome, a total eclipse of the moon darkened the Mediterranean...
...competing. He won last year and the year before. But Harold Holmes and Orville Welch, two Illinois boys who had won their State's championship, were known to be spry harvesters. Then there was Fred Stanek of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Three years ago he won at Winnebago, Minn, on a rainy, windy afternoon, and the year before that in a slushy snow at Fremont...
Citizens of Wisconsin first became known as Badgers when the lead mining operations were instituted in the Minreal Point vicinity at the close of the Winnebago War, 1827. Conditions of living were crude. Illinois mining teams flitted with the seasons and were called "Suckers", colloquial name for the small migratory fish of the streams. Swiss and Cornish immigrant miners, too busy to build houses, moved into abandoned shafts on the hillsides and thus were known as Badgers. Hence Wisconsin attained the name of Badger State...