A few fun local articles

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Max Magee

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Feb 13, 2026, 6:13:17 PM (10 days ago) Feb 13
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Hi all,

I was looking back to see if I could locate the article that I saw (a decade ago) that first brought the Notorious Canary Trainers to my attention, and I think I did. Since then, I've always wondered about those days, and since I had a few minutes to spare (or maybe more like an hour or two of combing through archives) today, I found a couple of other fun way-back items that I wanted to share.

I believe this is the 1979 article and quiz in the State Journal that I stumbled across that made me look the club up to see if it still existed:
Meeting article:
Tom Drucker's Quiz:
Of interest is that the meeting took place on Monroe Street in an old mansion called Newport Galleries-Plough Inn Antiques (Rita W.'s gallery off Monroe St). I saw many newspaper invitations for meetings in the 70's there and at the Religious Education Bookstore (the one-time Holy Redeemer School, now wedding venue on Johnson St.)

Here's one talking about Susan Flaherty, Diane Judd, and Kent Stephenson and the Bagatelle Card Club of Milwaukee from 1989:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-waukesha-county-freeman-nct-1989-k/191229837/

And an early one (1970) I hadn't spotted before (under Amateur Mendicant Society):
and the club's letter to the editor in response!

One more interesting one was off the AP wire in 1984, and mentions a few folks that I have gotten to meet and to know from my trips to New York:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-bsi-1984/191231767/

Hopefully those links open for everyone!

Max "Magic Jezail Bullet" Magee (he/him)
Notorious Canary-Trainer of Madison Wisconsin
Torist International S.S. of Chicago Illinois
Norwegian Explorer of Minnesota
Yeoman Purser of the Barque of the Lone Star & Cap'n Basil's Mignonettes
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