On This Date in Minnesota History: May 19

May 19, 1905 – Driven from home by an angry husband and father who said they “couldn’t do enough work to pay for their board,” Mrs. Lizzie Hagedus and her three small children of Forman, N. D., were found exhausted in the Minneapolis Union Station this evening.

All were so weak from hunger that they could scarcely walk and a policeman took them to Central Station where they were given shelter until the following morning.

The woman told her story to Matron Sarah Schaeffer, and said she had no friends to ask for aid. Both she and the children, she said, had worked on the farm of her husband, who abused them continually, and told them to do more work. Finally, the husband decided that she was worthless, and told her to look for another home.

With her children she walked 30 miles to Barrett, Minn., and there the citizens took up a collection to send to Minneapolis, where, they had heard, poor people were well cared for. The money obtained was just enough to purchase the transportation, and the long fast, together with the walk, exhausted the family.

Barrett, Minn.¹

 Forman, N. D.²

The following morning the poor department took up the case and learned that the woman’s story was true. As she is not a resident of Minneapolis, she could not be given aid, and a return ticket to her home was purchased. Arrangements were made with a charitable society at Forman to care for her, and to institute proceedings against her husband.

The Minneapolis Journal; “Driven Out by Brutal Father. Pitiful Plight or Women and Three Children. Turned Away from Home on Dakota Farm Because They Could Not Do More Work—Walked Thirty Miles to Barrett, Minn.—Found Exhausted in Passenger Station in Minneapolis.”; May 20, 1905; p. 6.

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 18

*May 18, 1914 – The Minneapolis district regional reserve bank became a reality today when representatives of five national banks in the district met at the Northwestern National Bank in Minneapolis and signed certificates of incorporation. Similar action was taken in the 11 other districts of the Federal Reserve System.

Immediately following the signing of the articles E. J. Decker, president of the Minneapolis Clearing House Association, wired M. C. Elliott, secretary of the organization committee at Washington, that the incorporation had been effected.

The signed articles of incorporation were mailed to Washington in the afternoon.

The incorporation was accomplished in record time. Promptly at 11 a. m.. the time for which the meeting was called, the incorporators met in the directors’ room of the bank.

No chairman was elected, and all formalities were sidetracked. Mr. Decker presented to the incorporators the certificate of incorporation. The 10 signatures were appended in five minutes and the incorporators went to lunch at the Minneapolis Club as the guests of the Clearing House Association.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Reserve Bank Is Reality It Takes Incorporators Just Five Minutes to Sign Articles.”; May 19, 1914; p. 9.

Federal Reserve Bank, Fifth and Marquette, Minneapolis

 http://www.cassgilbertsociety.org/works/mpls-fed-reserve/

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On This Date in Minnesota History:May 17

May 17, 1914 – Five people were drown in the capsizing of an overcrowded 16-foot launch in the Mississippi River at Thirty-third Avenue NE, Minneapolis,  at 3 p.m. today.

Four more of the party were rescued from three or four bobbing logs snagged in mid-stream onto which they had crawled after half an hour in the water whose current carried them four blocks.

The body of Harold Buchholz was found floating at Fifteenth Avenue, 18 blocks from the scene of the accident, an hour later.

Too short a turn in a big eddy overturned the heavily loaded launch as if it were a canoe.

John C. Buchholz, who drove the launch, kept his wife and his sister’s daughter afloat. His own two children were drowned.

Fred Weber, aged 20, of Merrill, Wis., struggles to save Mrs. Justman and failed. She and two of her children were drowned.

Buchholz struggled to a cluster of logs, gripping his wife by the hair and with his sister’s little girl clinging around his neck. Merrill followed him. The woman and child were pushed onto the logs, Mrs. Buchholz unconscious. They clung there until three employees of the General Electric Company’s nearby plant took them in a boat.

Otto Justman was fishing today and late this evening learned of the accident that took three of his family of four. Mr. and Mrs. Buchholz have no children left.

The accident happened at Thirty-fourth Avenue North. The rescue was made at Twenty-ninth Avenue North.

The Mississippi River runs through Minneapolis; 1908 - 1910¹

When the launch capsized, it spun over and over on its side and afforded no refuge. One of the Buchholz children was shoved onto it for an instant, then it whirled again and the child disappeared. The same whirl that drowned his child threw Mrs. Buchholz within the reach of Mr. Buchholz. In another spin the boat struck Mrs. Justman from the arms of Weber and she sank.

Boat and floundering people were carried fast down the river. Buchholz gave encouragement to the nine-year-old Helen Justman, who cried to him that she could not hold onto his neck much longer. His wife lost consciousness before the three had floated a block and the cessation of her struggles, Buchholz says, saved the lives of all three. Weber, swimming free, caught him just as he reached a little clump of logs that had anchored against a piling in the river. The two men pushed the apparently dead Mrs. Buchholz and the girl onto the logs. Buchholz, fast becoming exhausted, clung to the logs, half-supported by Weber.

Workman at the General Electric plant saw the struggle and launched a boat. Thirty minutes after the accident they reached the four people and took them off. They were all revived at the Buchholz residence after two hours.

Fifty men began a search for bodies immediately under the direction of police of the north and east stations. The only body that had been recovered at a late hour this evening was that of Harold Buccholz, the clothing of a two-year-old keeping him afloat. The fact that his body was found 18 blocks from the spot where the launch overturned discouraged hope of early recovery of the other bodies.

It was a family dinner party that went out for a short ride. They were on the river just half an hour and were making the homeward turn when the accident occurred. Buchholz owns the launch.

Buchholz is a cabinet maker for the Northland Pine Company. Justman, whose wife and two children were drowned, is a chauffeur.


The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Five Drowned in Mississippi Launch Upset. Whirling Eddy Capsizes at Thirty-third Avenue Northeast. Four Rescued After Half-Hour Struggle in Swift Current of River. Man Holds Wife by Hair; Sister’s Child on Back; Saves Both. Bobbing Cluster of snagged Logs Is Refuge in Mid-Stream. Taken Off Exhausted By Three Workmen in Boat—One Body Recovered.”; May 18, 1914; p. 1.

¹http://postcardy.blogspot.com/2015/01/birdseye-views-of-minneapolis-and.html

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 16

May 16, 2014 – A bill legalizing medical marijuana was passed by the Senate and House with “significant bipartisan support.”

The law “authorizes access to the drug for about 5,000 Minnesotans with conditions including cancer, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS and a handful of others. With a health care provider’s permission, those patients will enroll in a patient registry that will allow the state Department of Health to monitor their progress.”

“The drug will be available only in pill or oil forms, with smoking not allowed and access to the drug in its original plant form forbidden.”

Star Tribune; “Tax Cuts, Marijuana Among Winners at Capitol”; May 17, 2014; pp. 1A & 10A.

https://www.themaven.net/theweedblog/policies/marijuana-policy-in-minnesota-G4jZBBx0xkyM5c8c-rqGng/

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 15

May 15, 1853 – Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota’s first territorial governor, took office on June 1, 1849, and left office on this date.

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

Gov. Alexander Ramsey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Ramsey,_Brady-Handy_bw_photo_portrait,_ca1865-1880.jpg

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