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GenealogyBank was founded in 2006, as a subsidiary of NewsBank offering a consumer product for family history researchers. [3] Since 1972, NewsBank has served as a newspaper reference tool for libraries. GenealogyBank leverages NewsBank's existing newspaper reference tool into a web based searchable database for genealogists.
[3] The Tribune ended publication with the issue of December 31, 1957, citing rising labor and material costs. [5] The Tribune was inducted into the Blair County Chamber of Commerce Business Hall of Fame on October 15, 2012. [2] There was also a newspaper called The Altoona Tribune, which served Altoona, Wisconsin, and which closed in 1947. [6]
Ryerson Index (1803– ) Free index only for death notices and obituaries; University of Sydney student newspaper, Honi Soit (1929–1990) Pay: The Age (1990–present) Sydney Morning Herald (1955–1995) Via the Google newspaper archives: The digital searchability is a major issue. Nevertheless, some issues of some papers may only be available ...
[3] The church was wired for electricity in 1933, using light fixtures that had come from Medford State Bank, but electric power didn't become available until 1946. [2] During the 1940s, a new oil burning furnace was installed. In 1963, the diocese closed St. Ann's Church because of a shortage of clergy.
In 1949, the credit union hired Art Gilberts as its first full-time manager. He managed the credit union from his house until 1953. By 1953, the credit union had grown to $365,000 in assets and the Board of Directors decided the credit union should have its own office. Office space was rented one-half block off Main Street in downtown Menomonie.
The Islamic Society of Northern Wisconsin Mosque in Altoona Of the 2,844 households 31.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.0% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.1% were non-families. 31.6% of households were one person and 14.7% were one person aged 65 or older.
Loggers came up the rivers and floated white pine logs out in spring and early summer log drives, down the Big Rib River into the Wisconsin River, down the Black River to the south, and west down the Jump and the Yellow River into the Chippewa. Log-drives continued until around 1900, when the easy-to-float white pine was dwindling. [8]
The western edge of the six by seven mile rectangle that would become the town of Medford was first surveyed in 1847 by a crew working for the U.S. government. That west edge of the town is on the Fourth Principal Meridian, the first north-south line surveyed up through the forests of Wisconsin, from which all the towns, sections and forties are measured.