Saturday, March 30, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 30

March 30, 1920 – “From all parts of [Thief River Falls] reports are trickling in of a strange man who hides behind trees and jumps out at the ladies as they go by, oftentimes grabbing them and kissing them before they fully realize what the man is about. The police have been constantly on the job trying to catch to catch the man but so far have failed in their efforts to locate him.” 

The Tribune
; “Strange Man Kisser is at Large in City”; Thief River Falls, Minn.; March 30, 1920; p. 1.




http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMD0VP_Water_Tower_Thief_River_Falls_MN
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Friday, March 29, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 29


March 29, 1984 – The log Catholic Church of Saints Joseph and Mary (also known as the Sawyer Log Church) in Perch Lake Twp., Carlton County, Minn., was put on the National Register of Historic Places on this date. It was built in 1884 by Ojibwe parishioners.

http://nrhp.mnhs.org/NRDetails.cfm?NPSNum=84001409



St. Joseph & Mary Church, Mission Road, Cloquet, Carlton County, MN. – May 1990

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St._Joseph_and_Mary_Church,_Mission_Road,_Cloquet.jpg

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 28

March 28, 1870 – “Elizabeth Cady Stanton, abolitionist and women’s rights activist, visited St. Cloud,” Minn., on this date. She “delivered a speech on women’s rights titled ‘Open The Door.’  She persuaded that many doors be opened: ‘the church door, the door to all employments, the door to equal wages, the door to the ballot, and so on.”

http://wjon.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-march-28th-1870/



Elizabeth Cady Stanton

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:ElizabethCadyStanton-Veeder.LOC.jpg
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 27


March 27, 1917 – A 206-pound man jumped out of a seventh story window of the Lumber Exchange Building this afternoon on a two-pound rope and didn’t break his neck.

The man was—still is—F. A.  Forest, Detroit, Mich., whose favorite pastime is trying to hang himself. In his vest pocket, he carries a lovely picture of himself, his wife and his four children, all hanging from the roof of their home.

His rope is really a steel cable, 3.32 inches thick—about as heavy as some kinds of fish line. It is a part of a patent fire escape that he invented. Today’s jump was Number 141—and he isn’t done yet, he says. Forest has a badly broken nose, which he solemnly declares he acquired while skating.

Forest’s hanging stunt has become an obsession. Even the frowns of F. J. Kraft, superintendent of the building, could not dissuade him today, and before anyone had time to interfere, he was out of the window.

He has been on “on the jump” for two years, his longest descent being from the roof of a 12-story building in Detroit. He went down at the rate of about four feet a second and landed on the ground with about as much force as though he had jumped from a curbstone, he says.

With his machine he can regulate his speed to suit himself, Forest says. The machine consists of an aluminum box, about three inches in diameter, which contains a spool and pulleys, from which the cable unwinds itself. The cable will lift 1,200 pounds.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune
; “Jumps From Seventh Story, Lands Unhurt; Detroit Man Chooses Lumber Exchange for Scenes of His 141st ‘Leap for Life.’”; March 28, 1917; p. 13.


Lumber Exchange Building circa. 1910-1917

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@cped/documents/webcontent/wcmsp-190433.pdf






Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Sept. 16, 2014, 
as long as acknowledgement included.  

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 26

March 26, 1920 - This Side of Paradise, the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published on this date, and written while he lived in St. Paul on Summit Avenue.

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




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:This_Side_of_Paradise_dust_jacket.gif





Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain March 26, 2013, 
as long as acknowledgement included.  
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Monday, March 25, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 25

March 25, 1918 – Hutchinson, McLeod County, continues to “carry on.” On the heels of news that two Hutchinson boys in the 161st field artillery had been slightly wounded in France, five high school boys came from Hutchinson today and enlisted as apprentice seamen in the navy. They are Clarence DeLong, Harry Telecky and Leland Rebstock, in the back row of the photo, and Emil Nelson and Donald Goodnow, seated. They are 18 years old.


All five young men survived the war.


The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Five More Hutchinson Boys Enter U. S. Service When Two Are Wounded”; March 26, 1918; p. 7.

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Sunday, March 24, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: March 24


March 24, 1919 – The Minnesota Legislature granted to the women of the state the right to vote for presidential electors.” The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote was passed seven months later on Aug. 18, 1920. 

http://www.lwvduluth.org/important-dates-in-league-history.html

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/July-August-08/On-this-Day--19th-Amendment-Gives-Women-Right-to-Vote.html


http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/votes-women/file.html

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