Posted on August 8th, 2005 – 7:03 PM
By Ben Welter
Name dropping
April 11, 1957: Freeways, fast and fun
April 19, 1906: San Francisco quake
April 2, 1953: Half-baked Alaska
Aug. 26, 1947: Aerialist dies in fall at fair
Aug. 29, 1963: A stand against whites-only hamburgers
Aug. 7, 1926: Baby on (running) board
Dec. 19, 1932: Bears win pro football title indoors
Feb. 8, 1922: 137-year-old Indian dies
Jan. 1, 1921: Women who wait
Jan. 13, 1921: Married by hypnosis
Jan. 2, 1955: Psychology 101
Jan. 6, 1921: The $1.19 lie
July 16, 1931: Race row in Minneapolis
July 18, 1936: Minnesota’s biggest baby
July 25, 1940: Boy’s foot was no fish
July 3, 1862: Thievery in St. Paul
June 18, 1959: Liberace wins libel suit
June 21, 1966: Dentist buys house for $266
June 4, 1897: Sparagus Kidney Pills
June 5, 1968: Get a haircut, or else
June 9, 1956: 6 killed as jet hits house
March 1, 1951: She wants to be a sports reporter
March 11, 1906: Minneapolis goes wireless
March 18, 1881: A message for the ladies
March 19, 1944: The first Minnesota Poll
March 6, 1935: Glasses, beauty not incompatible
May 1, 1946: Advice from Dorothy Dix
May 26, 1935: Bambino’s last home run
May 29, 1896: A new ballpark on Nicollet
May 29, 1896: Schoolchildren move a house
May 8, 1963: The Guthrie opens
Nov. 11, 1975: Edmund Fitzgerald reported missing
Nov. 12, 1940: Armistice Day blizzard
Nov. 24, 1883: Stone Arch Bridge opens
Nov. 5, 1959: A homemade burglar alarm
Oct. 13, 1918: Flu outbreak closes churches, schools, theaters
Oct. 14, 1918: Hundreds die in Cloquet fire
Oct. 21, 1926: Frank Lloyd Wright jailed
Sept. 18, 1961: Vikings shock Halas, Bears
Sept. 23, 1906: The Mysterious Mr. Sly
Sept. 4, 1945: Advice for a ‘fuddy-duddy’
Name dropping
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