On This Date in Minnesota History: June 16

June 16, 1933 – Thomas Liquor store at 1941 Grand Ave. in St. Paul was Rosedale Pharmacy in 1933. It was here in a soda booth on this date that William Hamm Jr.’s kidnapper, Fred Goetz, left the Hamm family a ransom note asking for $100,000 to release the Twin Cities’ industrialist.
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