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Philanthrope. In Crookston, Minn., Harvey Jensrud bought space in the Times to voice his appreciation: "Gee, thanks to the honest person or persons who returned my billfold with everything in it but the money...
...Benedict Crookston, Minn...
...father was a man who had studied for the ministry, gave it up after he read Robert Ingersoll, married a Kentuckian, studied law but never practiced, taught school, sold textbooks, became a Bull Mooser and a Woodrow Wilson internationalist. Joe, the sixth of seven children, was born in Crookston, Minn., in 1905. Joe played football at high school, worked as a farmhand and went to Antioch College. He topped off his education at the University of Minnesota and got a job on the Minneapolis Journal as a $15-a-week reporter...
Brusque, able, serious-minded Joseph Ball is called by other Minnesota political writers the best-grounded writer on government in the Twin Cities. Popular, but no handshaker, with 180 Ib. on his 6 ft. frame, he was born in Crookston, Minn., raised seed corn to pay his way through a year of Antioch College, went to the University of Minnesota (but did not graduate), got a job on the Minneapolis Journal when he was 21, married a reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch...
...time he was standing in the street, while 75 stood on the sidewalk. Then, with a criticism of Republicans in Congress, and a note of praise for Senator McNary, his Republican rival, Henry Wallace returned to his automobile and set out for New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, Olivia, Moose Lake, Crookston, Fergus Falls, Elbow Lake and other small towns in the farm belt...