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Career: Son of an intelligent Norwegian father, he was an early and precocious reader. From the State Normal School, he went to Northwestern University, worked his waythrough the dental school, opened a professional office at Glenwood, Minn, in 1904. After serving as the town's mayor, he was elected to the State House of Representatives for one term. Removing to Minneapolis he continued his dental practice until 1922 when he was nominated by the Farmer-Labor party, then on the rise, for the U. S. Senate, subsequently defeating Senator Frank Billings Kellogg, later Secretary of State...
...Railroad. Its president and vice president were given as Coleman Crenshaw and Thomas L. Hall, both of Salt Lake City, but last week no details were available on how they proposed to do their financing. The proposed Denver Pacific, it was stated, would follow the Colorado River Valley through Glenwood Springs, Rifle, Palisade and Grand Junction, would cross Utah, passing through Moab, and would touch San Bernardino, Calif. New territory would be opened, said the company's sponsors; the route from Denver to the sea would be shortened...
...record of Representative Edgar Howard of the Third Nebraska District is as follows : Born: at Osceola, Iowa, Sept. 16, 1858. Start in life: a printer's devil. Career: aged 13, he went to work in a printshop at Glenwood, Iowa. He went to public school, worked his way through Western Collegiate Institute, attended Iowa College of Law. He became a tramp printer, a wandering newswriter, worked for journals throughout the U. S. Last subordinate job: as city editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave...
Married. Louise Vinci Querra, "Queen of Nebraska Bootleggers"; and Earl Manning, onetime dry agent; in Glenwood, Iowa. Agent Manning arrested Queen Querra, fell in love, joined her racket, was arrested, languished in Leavenworth, was recently released...
Manufacturer Leach replied: ". . . The Glenwood product advertising is placed through an agency and I know nothing about it. We have followed the same procedure in placing Glenwood goods advertising as we have in the past." He said his advertising agent had evidently been "very silly" and that he had "vigorously called him to account...