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Agnes Israelson (July 22, 1896 – October 30, 1989) [1] was the first woman in Minnesota to serve as a city mayor.. In the October 29, 1953, issue of the Thief River Falls Times, the paper reported that Mrs. Israelson had beaten Harry Simonson, who had been seeking a fourth term as mayor of Thief River Falls, 1,204 to 978.
The first newspaper to be published in Thief River Falls was The Press in 1889. The second paper, The News, began publication in 1890 in Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, as the Red Lake Falls Times, then moved to Thief River Falls in 1893 and changed its name to the Thief River Falls News. Yet another paper, The Review, began operations in 1903.
Thief River Falls takes its name from a geographic feature, the falls of the Red Lake River at its confluence with the Thief River.The name of the river is a loose translation of the Ojibwe phrase Gimood-akiwi ziibi, literally, the "Stolen-land river" or "Thieving-land river", which originated when a band of Dakota Indians occupied a secret encampment along the river, hence "stealing" the land ...
Elizabeth Gilbert has returned with an emotionally-fueled new memoir. PEOPLE can exclusively share that the Eat, Pray, Love author will publish a new memoir, All the Way to the River: Love, Loss ...
Kelly, an American lawyer, politician, and Civil War veteran who was earlier in his life the 29th speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, was last seen at his law office in Boston and was thought to be taking a train home to his residence in Sharon, Massachusetts. He was never found, despite an intensive search by hired detectives.
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István Balsai, 72, Hungarian jurist and politician, Minister of Justice (1990–1994), MP (1990–2011). [1]Clara D. Bloomfield, 77, American physician and cancer researcher.
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