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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 ...
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Twenty-five years earlier, three teenagers found refuge in a friendship that kept them afloat and away from their difficult home lives. “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (June 3) "Atmosphere ...
An angry, drunken grandma has been busted in Tennessee for allegedly stabbing her daughter and grandson with a kitchen knife during a Thanksgiving Day argument.
A woman who saved years' worth of daily text messages from her dad turned them into a sentimental Christmas gift that left her dad in tears. Leah Doherty of Ohio told "Good Morning America" that ...
Affton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in south St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, near St. Louis. The population was 20,417 at the 2020 United States Census .