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A Look Back: The Severe Storms Of May 21, 2024

Armistice Day Storm: Media Accounts

Jeff Boyne, NWS La Crosse, WI

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Iowa

November 11, 1940

Oelwein - Oelwein Daily Register - page 1

November 12, 1940

Algona - The Algona Upper Des Moines - page 1
Ames - Ames Daily Tribute - page 1 & page 3
Fairfield - Fairfield Daily Ledger - page 1 & page 12
Mason City - Mason City Globe Gazette - page 1
Oelwein - Oelwein Daily Register - page 1 & page 3

November 13, 1940

Mason City - Mason City Globe Gazette - page 1
Muscatine - The Muscatine Journal - page 1
Oelwein - Oelwein Daily Register - page 1, page 3, & page 7
Postville - Postville Herald - page 1

Minnesota

November 11, 1940

Albert Lea - The Evening Tribute - page 1
Brainerd - The Brainard Daily Dispatch - page 1
Moorhead - Moorhead Daily News - page 1 & page 8

November 12, 1940

Brainerd - The Brainard Daily Dispatch - page 1
Moorhead - Moorhead Daily News - page 1 & page 8
Winona - Winona Republican Herald - full paper

November 13, 1940

Albert Lea - The Evening Tribute - page 1
Winona - Winona Republican Herald - full paper

Wisconsin

November 11, 1940

Racine - The Racine Journal-Times - page 1 & page 15
Sheboygan - The Sheboygan Press - page 1 & page 15

November 12, 1940

Appleton - Appleton Post Crescent - page 1 & page 7
Madison - Madison Capital Times - page 1 & page 6
Madison - Madison State Journal - page 1
Manitowoc - Manitowoc Herald Times - page 1 & page 13
Oshkosh - Oskosh Daily Northwestern - page 1 & page 7
Racine - The Racine Journal-Times - page 1 & page 7

November 13, 1940

Madison - Madison Capital Times - page 1 & page 8
Oshkosh - Oskosh Daily Northwestern - page 1 & page 1 3
Sheboygan - The Sheboygan Press - page 1 & page 17

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