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   It must have been a special day in Blair, because a large crowd was at the
  Green Bay & Western's Blair, Wis. depot, dressed in their Sunday best
  clothes! 
 
  The date printed on the front of the card is August 
        2, 1908.  The back of this postcard postmarked 5:00 p.m.
  Thursday, November 26, 1908 mentions the "Blair Club"
  going to a football game in Chicago. (The University of Chicago
  defeated the Wisconsin Badgers
  18-12 on November 21 of that year -- that may very well have been the game.) 
  Beyond the depot is the W.W. Cargill grain elevator.  Cargill had
  developed a system of grain elevators in the upper Midwest, with several along
  the GB&W main line -- see this 1910 photo
  of Luxemburg for another of Cargill's properties on the railroad. 
  Who are the group of people standing off of the platform on the tracks? 
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