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• Transforming a government library: the Wirtz Labor Library in the U.S. Department of Labor went digital in January 2008, but it was far from easy

  - 2008-12-01

  On March 4, 1913, just hour before leaving office, President William Howard Taft signed legislation the U.S. Department of Labor DOL. Its mission in 1913 was to "foster, promote and develop the welfare of working people, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment "...

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• Glazer's and the Wirtz Beverage Group announced an agreement to form a new firm, Judge and Dolph, LLC, creating the largest spirit, wine and malt beverage distributor in the state of Illinois.(Business Briefs)

  - 2008-05-01

  Glazer's and the Wirtz Beverage Group announced an agreement to form a new firm, Judge and Dolph, LLC, creating the largest spirit, wine and malt beverage distributor in the state of Illinois. As a result, Union Beverage Company, which is owned by Glazer's Distributors of Illinois,...

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• Wirtz Beverage Group Announces Strategic Alignment

  - 2008-04-07

  State affiliates centralize operations and implement shared vision CHICAGO -- Citing vision and growth, W. Rockwell Wirtz, Chairman of the Chicago-based Wirtz Corporation, announced today that the company's national portfolio of wine, spirit and beer distributorships would be united under a new organizational operation of the Wirtz Beverage Group...

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• Easy to Swallow, Hard to Digest

  - 2008-03-01

  Two veterinarians discuss hardware disease and offer tips to prevent it from affecting your herd - and pocketbook. Maybe it was in the feed. Maybe it was well concealed in a round bale. Or, maybe, the cow just picked the metal object up out of the pasture. No...

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• Sports briefs

  - 2007-10-06

  Basketball NETS SIGN ARMSTRONG: The New Jersey Nets signed veteran guard Darrell Armstrong on Friday. Armstrong, who was the third oldest player in the NBA at 39 last season, was cut by Indiana earlier this week. MAY OUT FOR SEASON: Charlotte Bobcats forward Sean May will...

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• Sports briefs

  - 2007-09-27

  Golf WEIR DRAWS MICKELSON: Roughly 30 percent of Canadian golfers play left-handed. In Quebec, the figure is about 40 percent. Today in a Presidents Cup match, it will be an even 50 percent when Phil Mickelson and Canadian star Mike Weir tee it up in Montreal. ...

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• Top pick Kane happy to get back on the ice.(Sports)

  - 2007-07-04

  Byline: Tim Sassone tsassone@@dailyherald.com Patrick Kane would have liked to have been on the ice with his new Blackhawks teammates Monday for the start of prospects camp, but what can one do when the boss asks to have lunch? ...

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• A Remembered Call

  - 2007-07-01

  The Santa Gertrudis Breeders International recently had me on the hot seat answering questions about membership. They are in the trenches of working on their long-range plan. Because it is so hard to actually quantify its success, I reluctantly mentioned the Association Promotion Committee's efforts to make sure delinquent or...

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• Yzerman's praise of Toews impresses Wirtz.(Sports)

  - 2007-05-30

  Byline: Tim Sassone tsassone@@dailyherald.com Introducing Jonathan Toews was such a big deal to the Blackhawks that owner Bill Wirtz dropped by Tuesday's news conference at the United Center. Wirtz even publicly signed Toews' three-year contract that, including bonuses,...

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• Where Green Street and Easy Street meet Let these suburbanites show the way to helping the environment.(News)

  - 2007-04-24

  Byline: Lauren Heist Beep Staff Writer These days, saving the environment and stopping global warming is cool. Leonardo DiCaprio is making speeches about climate change. Orlando Bloom is building an environmentally friendly house. Al Gore, the biggest rock star on the green scene, is...

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