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4 unusual facts about Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee's first television station, went on the air in 1947.

After the Panic of 1893 a private utility monopoly run by stalwart Republican party bosses Charles F. Pfister and Henry C. Payne, the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company (TMER&L), revoked commuter passes and raised utility rates during the depression.

King was a native of New York City, a graduate of West Point, a brevet lieutenant, the son of the president of Columbia College and the grandson of U.S. Constitution signer Rufus King.

Tamara Natalie Madden

Her first solo exhibition was in 2004, and it garnered her an interview with the late James Auer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.


Genesee Depot, Wisconsin

The quarry provided the stone for many Wisconsin buildings, including the state capitol in Madison, the Milwaukee Sentinel building, and Carroll University's earlier buildings.

Mars Cheese Castle

The store is the oldest cheese shop located at what the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel called "Wisconsin's most visible cheese interchange"; the junction of Interstate 94 and Wisconsin Highway 142 had three cheese shops until 2009 and still has two.


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