Saturday, August 10, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: August 10

August 10, 1887 – The first issue of the “Prison Mirror,” the newspaper of the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater, was published on this date. Bank robber Cole Younger was associate editor.1

It was the first publication in America produced solely by inmates from inside a prison, and at 127 years and counting it is the oldest continuously published prison journal in America.2

1Minnesota History Center; Minnesota History Timeline

2http://www.thenation.com/article/180381/can-free-press-flourish-behind-bars#




Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain 2-21-2013, 
as long as acknowledgement included.  

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Friday, August 9, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: August 9

August 9, 1962 - The first movie shown at the St. Louis Park Cooper Theater was the "Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm," on this date. “The ad in the Minneapolis paper had a list of places in outlying cities where one could buy tickets, and a coupon one could send in to buy tickets in advance. When the Cooper played Cinerama, it was “hard ticket” meaning a patron bought a ticket for a specific seat.”

The Cooper was one of only three theaters in the country to be specially outfitted for Cinerama, which used three film projectors synchronized to make a panoramic image.

http://www.slphistory.org/history/coopertheater.asp



http://www.slphistory.org/history/coopertheater.asp

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Wednesday, August 7, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: August 8


August 8, 1901 – John McCarthy, a farmer of Inver Grove township, a former resident of St. Paul, with several relatives living in that city, was dead in the road near Westcot this morning. His team was hitched to a fence. The body was taken to St Paul today and will be interred tomorrow.

McCarthy wen to St. Paul yesterday on business, and returned home in the evening. Near Westcot the horse got frightened by a woman who appeared in the road with a wheelbarrow, and McCarthy fell out of the wagon backwards. The woman told Aug. Wellbach about the accident, and he went to the man’s assistance. Believing that McCarthy was drunk, he dragged him to the side of the road, and after hitching the horse, returned home.

In the morning, Wellbach saw the horse and wagon, and went over to the place and found McCarthy dead. He then notified the family of the deceased, and Coroner Kramer, of Dakota County, decided that death resulted from heart failure.

McCarthy was 62 years old, and had lived in this section of the state for 40 years. He was a Civil War veteran, and leaves a widow and five children.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Found Him Dead; Fall From His Wagon Kills John M’Carthy, a Farmer. Resided in Inver Grove Township, and Was En Route Home When Accident Occurred.”; Aug. 9, 1901; p. 5.


https://lphonline.metc.state.mn.us/CommPage?ctu=2395429&applicant=Inver%20Grove%20Heights

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On This Date in Minnesota History: August 7


August 7, 2015 - Upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of seventy, Alan Page retired from the Minnesota Supreme Court. Page served on the court for twenty-two years.

http://www.mnopedia.org/event/august-7-2015



Alan Page

http://www.spokanehowsbusiness.com/news/archiveStory.asp?theArticle=1087

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: August 6

August 6, 1883 – “Stillwater [Minn.] residents hear for the first time the breath-taking melody produced by the colossal six-ton ten-bell chimes of St. Michael's Church. These are the first chimes of this caliber in the northwest and are operated by Mamie Hoy, the first and only woman to have the privilege of operating the ropes of the gigantic mechanism. The chimes would continue to be heard in their original form until Christmas Day, 1962. The chimes are still heard today, although the mechanism has since been electrified.”

http://projects.wchsmn.org/reference/events/bells-st-michaels/




St. Michael's Church
Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Oct. 6, 2012, 
as long as acknowledgement included.  
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Monday, August 5, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: August 5

August 5, 1940 – Minnesota native “Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was bitterly denounced in the senate today by Senator Pepper, Democrat, Florida, ‘as the chief of the fifth-column in this country.’”  Pepper was reacting to “the flier’s speech Sunday urging ‘co-operation’ with Germany if Germany wins the war. In a radio address replying to Lindbergh, Senator Lucas, Democrat, Illinois, said tonight he was ‘not only amazed but somewhat shocked by Colonel Lindbergh’s attitude of complacency toward Adolph Hitler.’” 

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Lindbergh Hit As U.S. Fifth Column Chief”; August 6, 1940; p. 10.




Charles A. Lindbergh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LindberghStLouis.jpg
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Sunday, August 4, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: August 4

August 4, 2003 – Suffering from postpartum depression and hearing voices that told her to kill her baby, Villanova University history professor Dr. Mine Ener succumbed to her psychosis on this date, slitting the throat of her 6-month-old daughter Raya Donagi. Ener and her daughter were visiting Ener’s parents in St. Paul at the time.

Raya had Down syndrome and often needed to use a feeding tube. Ener told police she “did not want the child to go through life suffering” with her disability.

On Aug. 30, 2003, Ener committed suicide in a Ramsey County jail day-room by smothering herself with a plastic trash bag. 

http://murderpedia.org/female.E/e/ener-mine-an.htm



 
Villanova University history professor Dr. Mine Ener
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