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...Atterbury Brothers Shows performing at Crookston, Minn, last week an elephant stampeded, smashed a section of bleachers injuring some 20 spectators, trampled a small girl to death...
...Crookston, Minn., Everett Latta. fisherman, saw a golden eagle soar past him. Everett Latta cast his line, hooked the golden eagle, knocked it off a tree with a chunk of dirt, strangled it to death with his fish line...
Four crooks drove up to the Crookston, Minn. county jail one early morning last week, alighted from their delivery truck. Skillfully they slugged the night jailer, then the day jailer, then the day jailer's visiting friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most...
Cried Labor M.P. George Downie Blyth Crookston Hardie, ludicrously enough: "We all know that the Morgan's business seems to be chiefly to finance General Motors." Queried he shrewdly, "Was Grenfell's speech really made in order that General Motors might take a slap at Ford...
...annual election of officers of the Liberal Club held last night, Sterling Dow '25 of Kennebunk, Maine, was elected president; James Lawrence Dunham '25 of Scarsdale, New York, Secretary; Allan Evans '24, of Wolfeboro, N. H., Treasurer; Floyd Maurice Sathre '26, of Crookston, Minn., Chairman Administrative Committee; Howard Parker Stabler '25 of Greenwich, Conn., Chairman Entertainment Committee; Crester Tevis Lane '26 of Richmond, England Chairman Membership Committee...