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A safe Thanksgiving
Dear Readers: At Thanksgiving, families come together to celebrate, but this year COVID-19 has caused us to be cautious about who we come in contact with. So the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.gov) has come out with the following suggestions for a safe Thanksgiving celebration: HINTS
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LOW RISK FROM
• Having a small dinner with only people who live in your home. HELOISE • Safe delivery of foods to neighbors and homebound folks that doesn’t involve contact. • Virtual dinner and sharing recipes and stories with friends and family. • Shopping online instead of in person on the days after Thanksgiving. • Watching football, movies and parades on TV at home.
MODERATE RISK
• Having a small outdoor dinner with family and friends from the neighborhood. • Visiting a pumpkin patch or apple orchard using hand sanitizers and masks. • Attending small outdoor sports events with safety precautions in place.
HIGHER RISK
(Avoid high risk activities to help prevent the spread of the virus.) • Shopping in crowded stores just before, on or after Thanksgiving. • Participating or being a spectator at a crowded race. • Attending a crowded parade. • Going to large indoor gatherings with people not in your family. • Drinking alcohol or taking drugs, which can impede judgment and lead to risky behavior.
Stay vigilant and stay healthy during this holiday season. – Heloise
BE PREPARED ANYWHERE
Dear Heloise: I was traveling last week, and there was a group of kids hanging out in the parking lot of the hotel I was staying in. They made me nervous. I was glad that I had looked up the non-emergency number of the police in the city I was visiting before I left on my trip. I called them and told them of my concern. They could not have been nicer, and they sent an officer by and presumably told the kids not to loiter in the parking lot, and the kids left the area.
It saved time having this number handy. – Justine in Ohio
SLIP ON OVER
Dear Heloise: I have found that by using a king-size satin-like (slippery) pillowcase under my bum in bed allows me to turn over so much easier. It is especially good for anyone who may have nerve pain in their back, hips, legs, etc. It has been a godsend for me. I hope this helps someone else. – Peg, Port Charlotte, Fla.
DON’T GO EMPTY-HANDED
Dear Heloise: Yes, I remember your mother’s advice. I’m 84 and have always read her column (and yours).
You wrote recently in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle about quick cleanups. What I say is “never go empty-handed.” If you’re leaving a room, pick up and take with you anything that’s out of place. My grandmother’s favorite saying was “a place for everything and everything in its place.” Between the two of them (and you, too), my home is never cluttered. Neatness counts! –Jean Farnam, Three Forks, Mont.
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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Duluth Herald November 12, 1888 THE CITY.
The new Electric company is stringing its wires and making preparations to start up in business shortly.
Democrats are still paying election bets, and there is not a hat store in town where any plug hats are left.
There is no probability that the chamber of commerce building will be ready for occupancy before the spring of 1891.
There is about as much flour in the warehouses here as can be sent forward before the close of navigation, and receipts of flour from Minneapolis are practically at an end.
The contracts for the dredging and improving of Duluth harbor will be let tomorrow by Major Quinn. This contract embraces the dredging in Duluth harbor along the east side of Rice’s Point, and along the north dock line to Grassy Point, and is of great importance.
Early this morning police officer Hawkins found a man lying in Michigan street near Twelfth avenue west. The man was groaning and calling for help and the officer carried him to the side walk. He was helpless in two or three moments and died. He was taken to the morgue and among other things a letter was found in his pocket addressed to John Pratz, Grandin, Dakota; there were also time checks of the Grandin farm. The man has been about Duluth for some little time, was a blacksmith by trade, and apparently had no relative here; he was about forty years of age. This forenoon deputy coroner Alden examined the body but could find no mark of iolence of any kind; and concluded that he came to his death by sudden sickness. His body now lies in the morgue awaiting identification.
This morning Chief Engineer Stewart of the Duluth Gas & Water company started the new double Ad appearing in the Nov. 16, 1920 edition of the Duluth Herald.
plunger pump that the company has been putting in for several months. It replaces three old pumps, which have a combined capacity of 5,000,000 gallons, and the company claims that the pressure all over the city will be greatly improved. The pump is of a capacity of 6,000,000 gallons a day, pumping against a static head of 285 feet, the height above the lake of the new reservoir.
Duluth Herald November 14, 1900 NEGLECTFUL. Grand Jury Finds City
Authorities Permit Saloons to Be Open Sunday.
Thus sayeth the grand jury in its final report, made before it adjourned yesterday afternoon. The report is very brief, the briefest made in a long time, and besides the above words, it merely suggests a new coat of paint for the inside walls of the county jail, which is found in excellent condition otherwise. In discharging the grand jury, Judge Cant took occasion to compliment it very highly in the faithful manner in which it has worked. He called attention to the fact that for the first time in years a grand jury worked the same hours as the court, and even longer on one or two occasions.
Before adjourning, the jury returned three more indictments, one against McKenzie & Donovan for keeping open their saloon at 510 West Superior street on Sunday. This makes three indictments the jury returned for that offense, besides the report given above. McKenzie and Donovan, both of whom are former police officers, were arrested this morning and arraigned and they will plead tomorrow at 9:30 o’clock.
Duluth Herald November 15, 1910
NORTHERN COUNTIES
FACING A PERIOD OF
REAL PROHIBITION Railroads Are Refusing
Shipments of Liquor to Indian Territory.
Brewery at Bemidji Is Closed And Other Will Follow Suit.
Enforced prohibition of the strictest and most uncompromising nature has stalked suddenly and unannounced into the very midst of the northern section of Minnesota.
Something bigger than has yet been counted on has been started by “Pussyfoot” Johnson, by the action of the government in prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors into that portion of the state of Minnesota ceded to the United States by a treaty made with the Chippewa Indians.
Hibbing, Bemidji, Brainerd and some more of the towns of the range and surrounding territory are wondering what they are going to do, when the supply of liquor runs out.
If these towns and many others cannot get liquor of any nature from outside, and it cannot be manufactured in the limits of the territory that comes under the federal ruling, it begins to look like a real drouth and Northern Minnesota is just beginning to realize it.
Refuse Shipments.
Yesterday and today the Great Northern and the Duluth, Missabe & Northern railroads refused to accept consignments of liquor, the destination of which was the territory that has come under the stern and somewhat rigorous rule of “Pussyfoot” Johnson. The law has given the railroads their instructions, and the liquor sent here by connecting lines has been turned back to these lines.
In the “desert” country that are three breweries. It might be better said there were three. One of the wet goods factories has given up the
fight. It has capitulated to the stern and inexorable rule of Mr. Johnson. This was the brewery at Bemidji, which has been rendered hors de combat, for the time being.
At the present time the “desert” country is but entering on the first stage of the long drouth, even as the Egyptian’s of Pharoah’s dry rule, did enter on the seven years of dry doings, with but little conception of the big and long thirsts that were to parch and burn their palates.
Predictions are extremely bearish for those who love their morning’s morning or their evening’s nightcap. Even the most cheerful shake their head and mutter that the law is agin’ ‘em.
August Fitger of the Fitger Brewing company of this city stated this morning that his company was not shipping a single bottle of beer to the great “Northern Desert.”
Duluth Herald November 16, 1920 BANDITS CLEAN OUT SUPERIOR STATE BANK ROBBERS GET ALL CASH IN INSTITUTION Cashier, Clerks and Customers Forced to Lie On Floor. Four Men in Party Make Their Escape in An Auto.
What is feared may be only the first of a series of daylight bank robberies such as have terrorized
Minneapolis and other cities of the country within the last few years, occurred this morning when the
Ad appearing in the Nov. 9, 1920, edition of the
Superior State bank, 502 Becker avenue, Superior, of which B. Murray Peyton of Duluth is vice president, was held up and looted of virtually all of the cash in the institution, approximately $7,000.
Police at the Head of the Lakes warned by similar robberies in other parts of the county, facilitated since the automobile has come into common use, have been expecting something of the kind for soe time and have repeatedly warned banks hereabouts, especially those in the outlying districts of the two cities.
At 10:45 this morning, four men drove in a blue Cadillac car with a Minnesota license to within a couple of blocks of the Superior State bank, left one man in the car with the engine running, and the other three men went to the bank, entered, held up the attendants and customers present and while one stood guard over those in the building and another stood guard at the door, the third went through the vault, taking virtually every piece of cash in sight.
H. D. Erickson, cashier, and two assistants, Miss Nellie Mulligan and Miss Martha Nelson, were the only bank employes in the building.
One of the bandits then forced Erickson and the two girls to lie on the floor, face down. He stood guard over them with an automatic. A second robber forced several customers to lie down also. The third man ransacked the vault.
All four robbers then sped to their Cadillac and drove off towards Allouez. All four men wore caps, according to witnesses of the robbery.
Duluth Herald November 17, 1922
DENFELD HIGH LAD IS ELECTROCUTED
Marvin Newman Meets Death as He Daringly Climbs Tower.
Death, sudden and painful, came to one of two youths who took a chance today and “played hooky” from school. Choosing to taunt fate by climbing up in a tower amid a maze of high-powered electric wires, Marvin Newman, 16 years old, who lived at 2423 West Eighth street, was instantly killed when 66,000 volts of electricity passed through his body for five minutes while he dangled on a wire and then fell sixty feet below to the top of a pile of rocks.
Carl Anderson, 12 years old, 2421 West Eighth street, his companion, escaped a similar fate because he was afraid to go up in the tower and stood below aghast as he saw his pal in the throes of death on the wires.
Then when Marvin fell to the ground, Carl, afraid that someone would steal the football, which they had been tossing, picked it up and ran to Marvin’s mother, Mrs. Albertine Newman, and told her that her little boy was dead.
Marvin saw Carl early this morning on his way to school and suggested that “it was such a swell day, let’s um school.” Marvin was a sophomore in Denfeld high and Carl is in the fourth grade.
They skipped school and finally found their way to a stretch of land just below the Springville road, off Fourteenth street and Twentyfourth avenue west. There they played for quite a while with their football.
When this became too tame, Marvin suggested that they climbed up on the bars of the tower that braces the electric wires through which 66,000 volts of electricity run.
Carl was afraid. He showed Marvin the sign that warned people not to tamper with the tower and that a reward of $100 would be paid to anyone reporting a violation.
Carl remained below while his companion started to climb up the side of the tower. Marvin had to step on the little warning sign while making his climb.
Finally when he was at the top of the tower he peered down. Sparrows were on the wires, and Marvin yelled down that he “wished he had his slingshot.”
His last words were uttered when he shouted down at Carl: “Oh, for high!”
Then his head touched a wire. He dangled on another wire for about five minutes and then fell.
When Chief Pugh, Capt. Fiskett and others from the police station arrived, the youth was in a heap at the side of the pile of rocks. At first it was thought that he was still living, but Chief Pugh examined the body and pronounced him dead.
Besides his mother, Marvin is survived by five sisters. His father is dead.
The Indian Reorganization Act
In 1934, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs set up a new organizational model to transform Native American tribal governments.
The articulation of that model, the Indian Reorganization Act, influenced the governance systems of Native people, including Minnesota’s Ojibwe and Dakota. They now work to MNcustomize the OPEDIA government forms imposed upon them. In the KATHRYN R. GOETZ 1930s, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Commissioner John Collier sought to overturn federal policies that had led to tribal land losses – particularly the Dawes Act of 1887.
The resulting Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (IRA) ended land allotment, prohibited non-consensual land seizure, recognized tribal governments, encouraged the writing of tribal constitutions, and empowered Native people to manage their own resources.
The Ojibwe and Dakota in Minnesota stood to benefit from Collier’s reforms. Like many tribes, they were struggling to make a living off their lands. They also wanted to govern themselves, and many rejected assimilation into white society.
Although Congress interfered with Collier’s plans, enough of the original bill survived to give tribes a start. Between 1934 and 1945, Native American nations across the United States voted to decide whether to restructure their governments according to the IRA.
Ninety-two tribes accepted the model, and 72 rejected it.
In Minnesota, the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe walked away from most of the IRA. Their constitution dated to 1918; their governance included hereditary chiefs, while their lands were owned communally.
They did find one part of the law useful: the guarantee of more power to manage their own land.
The five remaining Ojibwe bands in Minnesota – White Earth, Leech Lake, Bois Forte (or Nett Lake), Grand Portage, and Fond du Lac – voted as Nathan Whitefeather and family (Red Lake Ojibwe), ca. 1934. Ruth Landes Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian.
well. Out of 6,351 individuals, 1,966 voters accepted and 346 rejected the IRA. Each of these, together with the Mille Lacs band, joined together as the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe on June 18, 1934, and later voted to accept one IRA constitution.
In 2018, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe focuses as a governing body on three issues: land trusts (lands with special protections on taxation and development); elections within bands; and citizenship rules.
The Ojibwe communities of Sandy Lake, Lake Lena, Isle Royale, and East Lake joined the Mille Lacs Band due to a BIA decision. Each of the six bands wrote its own constitution.
Minnesota’s Dakota communities also reorganized under the IRA. Lower Sioux and Prairie Island voted for constitutions in 1936 and for business charters in 1937.
Upper Sioux formed as a community in 1938, created a board of trustees in 1942, and wrote a constitution in 1995. The Shakopee Mdewakanton officially formed an IRA government in 1969.
The original standardized IRA constitutions centralized power in the Tribal Councils or a similar governing body; different branches of government did not double-check their decisions and courses of action.
The templates also failed to accommodate traditional leadership structures and other community lifeways. Some of these features evolved.
For example, in 1981 the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe incorporated a separation of powers, forming executive, legislative and judicial branches.
Tribal governments could qualify for business loans under the IRA. They also had a say in renting out their land to companies who wanted to take natural resources, which led to economic development. The late Amos Owen, a former chairperson of the Mdewakanton Dakota at Prairie Island, pointed out in 1970 that some families accessed loans for farming through the IRA’s revolving credit fund. He admitted, however, that the community faced difficulties with buying back land. Albert Prescott, chairperson of Lower Sioux, said in 1979 that the federal government still made the “real decisions.”
In general, tribes had little choice but to fall in line with what the BIA allowed. It regularly reviewed constitutions and approved business dealings. Still, Native American nations were able to purchase more land with BIA go-ahead. By the end of 1936, tribes in Minnesota held about 16,000 more acres of land than they had owned before the IRA.
Native Americans and scholars debate the impacts of the IRA today. Some say the IRA was the beginning of modern tribal governments; others argue that it isolated Native American nations as “problems” and discouraged their independent, creative thought.
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