Flu closes Northrop school; child left on freezing Fond du Lac bus for hours
Birds were watched, factory lights brightened, whiskey-flavored corn liquor produced, and a poor kid got left on the bus and nobody helped him (he’s OK now — plus or minus some future abandonment issues).
The news from Greater Minnesota this week is full of interesting tidbits
Jokes flew at the women’s expense, and in print women were still referred to by their husband’s names. One of our copy editors liked to cut out the Lockhorns cartoon and paste it up at his desk; the shrewish Loretta Lockhorn, he said, was just like his wife. When a woman in the newsroom got married, one of the old-timers asked her gravely if she planned to quit her job.
Excerpt from “News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist,” University of Minnesota Press, by Laurie Hertzel
MinnPost photo by Paul Walsh from “‘Tall Ships’ sail into Duluth Harbor” by Joe Kimball.
