Tuesday, August 28, 2012

On This Date in Minnesota History: August 28

August 28, 1907 – “Disregarding his mother’s warning not to go into the water,” a 28-year-old man “drowned while bathing within sight of a dozen companions” near Brownsville, Minn. The man’s “brother was drowned in the identical spot just twenty years ago to the day.”
Tower Weekly News; “Drowned in the Same Spot, Brothers’ Deaths are Twenty years Apart to the Day”; August 30, 1907; p. 3.

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