On This Date in Minnesota History: May 26

May 26, 1922 – A plea for Minneapolis business men to aid Dunwoody Institute in securing work for its students while they are in training and locating positions for them when they have completed their courses was made by Dr. C. A. Prosser, director, before the Minneapolis Rotary Club at its meeting in the institute this noon.

“I ask you to try out the two-boy plan of employment,” Dr. Prosser said. “We will send you two boys to do anything you want them to do from scrubbing to trained work. Employ one for one week and one for the next. By this alternate employment each boy will be able to earn sufficient to remain in Dunwoody and keep up his studies as well.”

Dr. Prosser declared that the purpose of the institution was “to take a man at any time and train him for anything.” He explained that the institution conducted day and night classes without interruption throughout the year and during the past 10 months its enrollment had been 4,322 men ranging in age from 16 years to 60 years.

Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain May 26, 2018,
as long as acknowledgement included.

“It is an institution for poor, plucky, worthy, ambitious boys and men,” Dr. Prosser said. “The men who come here are the cream of the working class and are paying the price to make something of themselves. I know of only one boy in the institution, and he was the son of a baker, who had his way entirely paid.

The day work of the school was described by R. T. Craig, assistant director, and the evening and extension work by Reed Bass, assistant director.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Jobs Are Sought for Dunwoody Students. Minneapolis Business Men Are Urged By Dr. C. A. Prosser to Provide Work.”; May 27, 1922; p. 4.

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 25

May 25, 1908 – An exciting race with death from the little hamlet of Wawota, Saskatchewan, which lies far away from the railroad in Western Canada, to Minneapolis to reach the Pasteur Institute at the State University was culminated this morning, when little Winifred Randall, 10 years old, was examined by Dr. Orianna McDaniel and pronounced within reach of medical aid for hydrophobia (rabies), with which she is suffering as the result of a dog bite.

Located in the handsome new institute of public health and pathology building at the State University, the Pasteur Institute opened last August. Prior to that, the closest institute was located in Chicago.

Both Dr. Westbrook and Dr. McDaniel of the Minneapolis Pasteur Institute, express great hopes for the little English girl’s complete recovery after she has taken the three weeks’ treatment prescribed by the institute.

Horace Randall, the father, when he heard the doctors’ reassuring news after the examination, was overcome with joy. For the last few days and nights, he and the little one have been traveling towards his daughter’s one salvation as fast as horses, boats and steam could carry them. Night and day he has been fearing that he would arrive too late.

The little girl, in her home on the prairies, was bitten by a dog last week and with the first appearance of the symptoms, was driven by team to the railroad some miles distant, where she bade goodbye to her mother, and with her father, took the train to Winnipeg. At the latter city nothing could be done for the child as there is no Pasteur Institute there, and the father was advised to hurry the child to Minneapolis. Jumping from the train this morning at the Union Depot, the desperate father hurried into a hack and drove to the Institute at the University.

Wawota, Saskatchewan to Winnipeg, Manitoba, then on to Minneapolis¹

Winnipeg people have taken widespread interest in the case and are taking up a public subscription to defray the expenses of the treatment. As the case is from out of the state, the fee will be $100. Randall has secured lodging quarters for himself and his daughter on the East Side, near the Institute where the little girl will present herself every morning for treatment.

Winifred will be at the Institute to take her first treatment tomorrow morning, and her father will accompany her.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Child, Mad Dog Victim, Hurried to Minneapolis. 10-year-old Canadian Girl in Long Race to Save Her Life.”: May 26, 1908; p. 1.

The Northfield News; “Ready to Cure Rabies. State Board of Health Has Equipped Laboratory Authorized by State.”; Aug. 17, 1907; p. 3.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Hydrophobia Is on the Increase. Disease Grows in State, but Not in the City of Minneapolis. Superintendent of Pasteur Institute Describes Treatment. Fantastic Ideas Held as to Propagation of Rabies Dispelled.”; July 5, 1908; p. 15.

¹http://www.canadaab.com/distance/28121347-28007019
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Winifred Randall survived her ordeal with rabies. From a scientific standpoint, her recovery was very important for the Pasteur methods.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Treatment Given Girl Will Prevent Rabies”; May 29, 1908; p. 9.
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Louis Pasteur²

During the mid-to late 19^th Century, Louis Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and discovered how to make vaccines from weakened microbes. He developed the earliest vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax and rabies.<sup>3

2</sup>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur#/media/File:Louis_Pasteur,_foto_av_F%C3%A9lix_Nadar_Crisco_edit.jpg

³https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/louis-pasteur

On This Date in Minnesota History: May 24

May 24, 2010 – A Minnesota man was named the tallest man in the United States on this date by Guinness World Records. Igor Vovkovinsky of Rochester, Minn., measured 7 feet 8.33 inches tall during a session of NBC’s “The Dr. Oz Show.”  The 27-year-old Vovkovinsky “moved to Minnesota with his mother from the Ukraine when he was 7 years old” so he could receive “treatment at the Mayo Clinic for a pituitary disease that spurred his rapid growth.” According to Guinness, “the world’s tallest man is Turkey’s Sultan Kosen, who stands at 8 feet 1 inch tall.”

http://blogs.theworldlink.com/weird_news/tag/minnesota/

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 23

May 23, 2004 - A circus performer fell 30 feet to her death “onto a concrete floor during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show” in St. Paul. According to a spokesman, “it was the first fatal accident in a Ringling Bros. circus in at least a decade.”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-05-23-circus-death_x.htm

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 22

May 22, 1934 – C. Arthur Lyon died on this date after being “clubbed by strikers” during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike during the summer of 1934. Lyon, a factory executive and “leader in the Citizens Alliance, a group of employers that squashed unions in Minneapolis for 30 years,” had volunteered to help control the strike, signing on as a special deputy. His name was added to the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C. for fallen officers. While not a police officer, he is considered to have died in the line of duty.

StarTribune; “Volunteer killed by strikers in 1934 honored”; Minneapolis, Minn.; May 14, 2012; pp. 9A and 10A.

1934 Minneapolis Teamster's Strike

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 21

May 21, 1917 – Willis Haviland of St. Paul, an aviator in the La Fayette Escadrille, has been awarded the war cross with a palm in recognition of his services in bringing down enemy machines. News of the honor given the 26-year-old young man was contained in dispatches from Paris today.

Haviland went to Europe as an ambulance driver 18 months ago. When he finished his six months’ service in the ambulance corps, he went into the French flying corps. His mother, Mrs. Grace N. Haviland, recently went to Paris to be near her son.

On April 30, Haviland engaged in battle with German air machines at a height of 4,000 feet. After a spirited fight one German plane was riddled with bullets and collapsed.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “St. Paul Boy Wins French War Cross for nerve in Air. Brings German Plane Down After Battle at Height of 4,000 Feet.”; May 22, 1917; p. 4.

French War Cross with Palm
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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 20

May 20, 1920 – Seven days after he is alleged to have deserted his wife and baby in Duluth, Frank W. Hart, 33 years old, is said to have married a widow in Seattle last August. Today he was arrested in Chicago and tomorrow he will be en route to Duluth to answer the charge of abandoning his 7-months-old daughter.

Hart’s trouble started when the two women who claim to be Mrs. Hart accidentally met last week. They compared notes and took their stories to St. Louis County Attorney Greene, who issued the complaint against Hart.

“Mrs. Hart No. 1” formerly was Miss Matilda Tilseth, 29. She is now employed as a clerk. The other was Mrs. Agnes Lawson, 36, of Seattle. She is visiting a sister in Duluth.

While Hart was in Duluth September 13, 1918, on a furlough from Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., he married Miss Tilseth after they had known each other a year. Hart is said to have told her he had a home and a mother in Minneapolis.

Mrs. Lawson, it is claimed, married Hart on August 20, 1919. She was an attractive widow of Seattle and had met Hart while visiting friends in Duluth.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “2 Women Claim Duluth Man, Cause His Arrest as Child Deserter”; May 21, 1920; p. 8.

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