On This Date in Minnesota History: July 1

July 1, 1966 – “Medicare went into effect on [this date], giving nearly 90,000 Twin cities senior citizens a chance to begin receiving much of their hospital care at federal expense.”

Minneapolis Tribune; “Opening Day of Medicare Quiet in Area”; July 2, 1966, p. 1.

Pres. Lyndon Johnson signing Medicare bill

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On This Date in Minnesota History: June 30

June 30, 1905 – Early this morning when Herbert McMann, who is employed with a gang of railroad laborers near Hopkins, was performing his meager and hasty toilet, he saw in the reflection of his face in the broken mirror that hangs in his bunkhouse, the horrible spots that told him he had smallpox. In the anguish that the sudden realization of his plight caused he uttered a hoarse curse. A companion asked the cause, and at the same moment beheld the small blotches that he too recognized. He darted out of the bunkhouse like lightning and ran for some yards.

McMann followed him, but everywhere he went, his fellow laborers ran from him. Not knowing what else to do, he started off towards his regular work. However, the other laborers broke and ran, many of them coming to Minneapolis, leaving their small quantities of supplies in the bunkhouse, which none of them now dared to enter.

Left alone, McCann did not know which way to turn. He wandered about the neighborhood, but nobody would take him in. A man who approached near to him saw the blotches, turned and ran some distance and then shouted back to McMann to leave the town—to go out into the country, anywhere so as not to expose the men, women and children.

McMann then began a long tramp alone. After several bad experiences with farmers whom he encountered on the highway, he began to avoid passersby. Late this evening he found his way to quarantine hospital—the “pest house.” There, at last, he found refuge.

But the problem that McMann created is not settled. Health Commissioner P. M. Hall, who later heard the story, sent officers searching the city and vicinity in an effort to prevent the further mingling with the citizens of the laborers in gangs who may have been exposed to the dread disease.

The Minneapolis Journal; “Is Shunned As Was Jean Valjean. Horrible Experience of a Smallpox Patient. His Fellow-Laborers Run from His Presence and, Denied Asylum Everywhere, he Finally Finds shelter in the ‘Pest House’—Persons Exposed May Have Come to Minneapolis.”; July 1, 1905; p. 6.

Smallpoxhttp://www.amnh.org/explore/science-topics/disease-and-eradication/countdown-to-zero/smallpox

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On This Date in Minnesota History: June 29

June 29, 1863 – “A state of terror prevailed on the Minnesota western frontier for many months after the Sioux Uprising of 1862. Roving bands of Sioux continued to elude pursuers and attack settlers. The Dustin massacre occurred on [this date], one third mile northwest of this spot [on U.S. Highway 12, about 1.5 miles west of Howard Lake, Minn.].

“Amos Dustin was moving his family to a new claim in the southwestern part of Wright County. There were six in the party: Amos Dustin, his wife Kate, their three children, Alma 6, Robert 4, and Albert 2, and Dustin's widowed mother, Mrs. Jeanette Dustin. Their wagon was drawn by an ox team. A party of Indians fell upon them from ambush, shot three to death with arrows, and mortally wounded a fourth. Alma and Albert were left unharmed. The victims are buried in a cemetery at Waverly.

“It has always been believed, although never proved, that the massacre was perpetrated by members of Little Crow’s party who were in the vicinity at the time. Four days later Little Crow was shot and killed near Hutchinson while picking berries with a son.”

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On This Date in Minnesota History: June 28

June 28, 1862 – Minnesota’s first railroad line begins operation when the William Crooks travels ten miles from St. Paul to the village of St. Anthony (present-day Minneapolis). Within ten years the state is laced with railroad lines, opening up vast inland regions to farming and lumber.

To get here, the William Crooks rode on tracks to LaCrosse, Wis., then was shipped by steamboats to St. Paul. Until the railroads, steamboat and the rivers they ride are the most efficient way to move goods in and grain and logs out.

Minnesota History Center; Minnesota History

http://zenithcity.com/saga-william-crooks/

The William Crooks

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On This Date in Minnesota History: June 27

June 27, 1928 – Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich was born on this date “in Carson Lake, Minn., which is now part of Hibbing.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Perpich

Rudy Perpich

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail.aspx?id=10522

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On This Date in Minnesota History: June 26

June 26, 1910 – John Koivisto, a shoemaker in Duluth, lit a match in his home this morning to find out what was causing a peculiar odor in the house, and now four members of his family are in the hospital and one of them is dying.

The home and the saloon next door were wrecked by a heavy explosion. The peculiar odor that Koivisto detected was caused by a leak in the gas main.

Mrs. Koivisto and two children are in the hospital and one of them, a girl five years old, has but a few hours to live.

The walls of the house were torn outward. The saloon building owned by Ole Olson was of brick and was utterly ruined. The force of the explosion broke windows in the Astoria Hotel a block away. The wrecked buildings were old and small, and the damage will not exceed $2,500.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Gas Explosion Is Fatal. Lighted Match Fires Duluth Room Filled From Leaky Main—Three May Die.”; June 27, 1910; p. 1.

http://www.health.umn.edu/about/living-minnesota/duluth

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On This Date in Minnesota History: June 25

June 25, 1901 – H. Wetenkamp, an aged German of Welcome, Minn., while changing cars in Austin, Minn., for Milwaukee this evening, was hustled by a crowd of pickpockets and robbed of his pocketbook containing $95 in cash and also checks and notes worth about $4,000. No clue has as yet been secured. The loss is only on the cash, as payments on the notes and checks have been stopped.

The Minneapolis Journal; “Welcome Man Robbed. $95 in Cash and $4,000 in Notes Are Gone.”; June 26, 1901; p. 2.

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