Word: minns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis M. HAN SEN St. Paul, Minn...
...informed that a story is being circulated that I canceled a trip I proposed to make in Iowa in behalf of the candidacy of Otha Wearin during my recent visit to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester. Minn...
...Paul, Minn...
...Author Holbrook's romanticism seems artificial, his facts are interesting. Best section of his book is his account of forest fires. In Hinckley, Minn., at noon on Sept. 1, 1894, a forest fire that had been burning nearby swept into town as the wind changed, trapped most of its 1,200 inhabitants. As 475 of them climbed into a train at the station the engineer waited until the paint began to blister on the cars, then pulled out. Ninety waited in a cleared space beside the tracks, were burned to death. Two hundred others raced down the track...
...Baconian theory (that Bacon wrote Shakespeare). Author of an emphatic volume that traced civilization's origins to a vanished continent (Atlantis: The Antediluvian World), Donnelly would have been a queer bird in any aviary. But he seemed still queerer against his own hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil War. A superb orator of the bull-roaring Bryan school, he plumped so hard for railroad...