Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otter Tail Lake in the State of Minnesota, Death came accidentally one night last week to the Rev. Ole John Kvale.† He went to bed all alone in his summer cottage, "Trail's End." All night he was alone. Sometime in the hours of darkness, tongues of flames (perhaps from the gasoline lamp) lapped the cottage and consumed it. In the morning a man, coming to rent land, found the charred skeleton of a building, and upon what had been a sleeping porch, beside what had been a cot, a body...
...white straw hat aloft with a gesture of dignified salutation, watched the new hull slide slowly down to the wet sea. The representative of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee saw nothing?neither the grey hull, the grey mist nor the white apparel. But he, blind Senator Schall of Minnesota (see p. 16), heard the patriotic whistles of the harbor shipping...
Senator Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, onetime dentist, lives on a secluded island in northern Minnesota, striving to recover health lost in the service of his country. Last week his regular Republican colleague, sightless Senator Thomas David Schall, stopped at the Minnesota State Fair, urged his constituents to offer prayers for Mr. Shipstead's recovery, "although he is not a Republican...
...Northwest are united in it. President is George Harrison Prince, head of First National of St. Paul, native of Amherst, Mass., but acquainted with northwestern banking from the ground up. Now 68, he has spent 50 years of his life in the small and large banks of Minnesota. Vice President is Lyman Wakefield, head of First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents of seven railroads. Chairman of the Board is Clive T. Jaffray, President of the SooLine (previously president of the First National of Minneapolis). Other railroad presidents already...
...Minnesota legislators a dance hall is "any room, place, or space open to public patronage in which dancing, wherein the public may participate, is carried on and to which admission may be had by the public by payment either directly or indirectly of an admission fee or price for dancing...