Saturday, July 12, 2014

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 12

July 12, 1920 - W.K. Wagner and Eldon Hendrixson, arraigned this morning in municipal court before Judge J. F. Gibbons on the charge of wearing indecent dress in a public street and making indecent exposure of their persons, were summoned for trial this afternoon. Attorney C. W. Scrutchin represented Wagner and Attorney P.J. Russell appeared for Hendrixson. Wagner was sentenced to a fine of $25 or 20 days in jail and Hendrix son was sentenced to a fine of $10 or 10 days in jail. The fine was paid in both cases.

The charge was made against these men on Saturday night when they were seen by one of the local policemen on a downtown Bemidji street clad only in their bathing suits.

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer; “Wear Bathing Suits Downtown and Pay Fine”; Bemidji, Minn.; July 13, 1920. P.1 



Typical swimwear of the 1920s

http://amtvintageblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/indecent-exposurevintage-bathing-suits.html




Friday, July 11, 2014

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 11

July 11, 1907 - Walter Bannister Congdon, the oldest son of Chester A. Congdon of Duluth, “was run over by a loaded ore car at the washing plant at the Canesteo mine at Coleraine” about 2 p.m. “His foot was crushed under the wheels, making amputation above the ankle necessary. Mr. Congdon was employed by the Oliver Mining company and the performance of his duties took him to all parts of the plant.”

A recent graduate of Yale, Mr. Congdon is 24 years of age and “just starting at the practice of his profession. He is a mining engineer, having taken that course at the Minnesota School of Mines, in addition to his studies at Yale.”

Duluth News-Tribune; “W.B. Congdon, Struck By a Car, Loses Foor”; Duluth, Minn.; July 12, 1907; p. 1.



Walter Bannister Congdon

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16679325/person/406071683/photox/7d6c9db3-8344-4b7c-8f4d-701b9aaaecbf?src=search



Thursday, July 10, 2014

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 10



July 10, 1986
1 - The Minnesota Correction Facility - Stillwater (MCF-STW), a close custody (level 4) state prison for men in Minn., was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on this date.

Built in 1914 and located in Bayport, Washington County, it houses 1600 inmates in seven different living areas. Additionally, approximately 100 inmates are housed in a nearby minimum security area. It replaced the original territorial prison located just to the north in the city of Stillwater.

In 2008, three inmates attempted to tunnel their way out. Their plan was thwarted by the authorities.

1http://nrhp.mnhs.org/NRDetails.cfm?NPSNum=86001574
2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Correctional_Facility_-_Stillwater





Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Feb. 21, 2013,
as long as acknowledgement included.






Wednesday, July 9, 2014

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 9

July 9, 1968 - Harmon Killebrew ruptured his right hamstring in his eighth American League All-Star appearance at the Houston Astrodome and was disabled July 10 – Aug. 31. Killebrew was stretching for a throw from shortstop Jim Fregosi and the clay gave away. Harmon said “he could hear it split like a rubber band.” The NL ended up winning the game 1-0.

http://twinstrivia.com/today-in-twins-history/




Harmon Killebrew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harmon_Killebrew_1962.png



Tuesday, July 8, 2014

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 8

July 8, 1986 – Two people, 35-year-old Bev Spano and her 7-year old daughter Jenny, were killed after a gasoline pipeline exploded around 4:44 a.m. in Mounds View, Minn. “Manhole covers blew out of the ground, spewing sparks and fire like giant blowtorches. Walls of flames taller than utility poles flashed down the streets, melting power lines and mailboxes.”

A leak in the pipeline had caused the gas to pool underground, then bubble “to the surface where it spilled into a two-block stretch of street gutters and storm sewers.” It was speculated that the heat from the car of a woman delivering newspapers “ignited the gas, sending flames through the neighborhood. The [pipeline], constructed in 1957 and last inspected in 1984, typically [transported] about 330,000 barrels of liquid fuel per month from Roseville to Wrenshall.”
 
Minneapolis Star and Tribune; “Two died in Mounds View blast”; July 9, 1986; pp. 1A, 10A-11A.




http://www.twincitiesnorth.org/city_moundsview.asp

 

Monday, July 7, 2014

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 7

July 7, 1995 – The First Presbyterian Church of Hastings, Minn., was placed on the list of the National Register of Historic Places on this date. The church was organized in 1856, and the first worship services held at this site in 1876.

http://nrhp.mnhs.org/NRDetails.cfm?NPSNum=95000822










Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Jan. 27, 2012,
as long as acknowledgement included.
 




Sunday, July 6, 2014

On this Date in Minnesota history: July 6

July 6, 1974 – “Garrison Keillor made his 1st live broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. In 2003 the show drew some 3.9 million listeners weekly. The show ended in 1987 and resumed in New York in 1989. It returned to Minnesota in 1993.”

http://timelines.ws/states/MINNESOTA.HTML




Garrison Keillor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Garrison_Keillor.jpg