Word: minns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duluth, Minn...
Scrappy Thomas J. ("Tommy") Gibbons, whom Jack Dempsey trounced in a heavyweight championship bout at Shelby, Mont, in 1923, managed to cling to the public payroll. Onetime City Clerk Gibbons of St. Paul ran as an independent for Ramsey County, Minn, sheriff...
Last week 50,000 people poured into small (pop. 5,521) Fairmont, Minn. Besides hotels every spare room for miles around was filled. Though 23 restaurant stands were set up to peddle hamburgers, hot dogs and coffee, many a prudent farmwife brought along great hampers of cold fried chicken, head cheese, hams, doughnuts, layer cakes and pies. Twenty-four State police directed the jammed traffic of cars from as far away as Kansas and Ohio. More exciting than any football game to Fairmont's visitors was that day's sporting event-the 11th annual National Corn Husking Championship...
Sherman Henriksen of Eagle, Neb., the defending champion, was a favorite, but even some Nebraskans favored Harry Brown, from Beemer, up in Cuming County. He had placed second last year. To spur on two Iowa entrants, Estherville sent its Drum & Bugle Corps to Fairmont. The folks from Redwood Falls, Minn, brought along the town band to cheer on their Ted Balko, 29, four times Minnesota champion, fifth in national honors last year...
...other States: Ariz., Calif., Colo., Del., Idaho, Ind., Ky., Me., Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mont., Neb., Nev., N. H., N. J., N. Y., N. Dak., Ohio, Ore., Utah, Wash., W. Va., Wis., Wyo. Pennsylvania's law goes into effect...