Word: minne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sale. The man who started cataloguing this cavalcade of America was Richard Warren Sears, a tall and dark promoter who, in the words of one admiring contemporary, "could sell a breath of air." Sears was a railroad telegrapher in tiny North Redwood, Minn, in the '80s-a time when shady manufacturers unloaded their stocks by shipping them C.O.D. to unsuspecting small-town merchants, then offered them cut-rate prices "to avoid return shipping costs." When a shipment of men's "yellow watches," hunting-case type, and gold-filled (value of the gold: 27?) was refused by a local...
...Wayzata, Minn...
Inflation. In Richfield, Minn., after the State Bank celebrated its fifth anniversary by passing out wooden nickels that had cost it 8? each, local merchants accepted the coins at face value...
When he graduated at 25, Pardue went back to Chicago, became chaplain of the Cook County juvenile court, the morgue and the insane asylum, and assistant chaplain of the county jail. In 1926 he got his first parish, at Hibbing, Minn., and a clearer notion of his life work. The Episcopal church at Hibbing, he found, paid plenty of attention "to the respectable people in the community, but they didn't think very much about the people who lived in the tar-paper shacks...
FREDERICK A. RICHARDSON Saint Paul, Minn...