This Was Brainerd - May 21 (2024)

MAY 21

20 years ago (2004)

Pressure? What's pressure when you're Cliff Edberg. The Warriors baseball game against Sauk Rapids had Brainerd behind 7-6 with a man on second and one out in the bottom of the seventh. “Mr. Clutch” (Edberg) then drilled a two-run homer to straight-away center to give Brainerd a dramatic 8-7 win.

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Police Blotter - May 20

30 years ago (1994)

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Dropping driver's education, raising fees for participating in sports and cutting back on field trips are among the ways the school board may use to produce a balanced 1994-95 budget. Because state aid has been frozen for three years, the board is looking to find $500,000 in cuts.

40 years ago (1984)

An inmate suit by 11 prisoners last summer to force air-conditioning of the Crow Wing County Jail took on a new look as the Minn. Civil Liberties Union asked to enter the case on behalf of the inmates. The MCLU called the lack of air-conditioning “cruel and inhuman punishment.”

60 years ago (1964)

Searchers dragged Mille Lacs Lake for the body of a fisherman who drowned yesterday noon. He and two others were anchored a mile off Garrison when a big wave swamped their boat. Exhaustion caused him to lose his grip on the boat, but the other two hung on for seven hours before being rescued.

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80 years ago (1944)

A rifleman who had never flipped a pancake before has volunteered to become a cook so he could stay with his Ranger Infantry outfit after his legs gave out. Tech 5^th Grade Harold Westerholm of Brainerd joined the Rangers when first formed two years ago in Ireland. He fought in the landings in N. Africa, Sicily and Italy.

100 years ago (1924)

The Men's Club of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church will hold its fourth annual pike supper on May 23. The men were out last evening catching pike and had good success. They will go again tonight and tomorrow to ensure enough fish for the large numbers expected to attend the dinner.

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8/46:First shipment of iron ore on the Cuyuna Range from the Kennedy Mine.

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27/46:People in the Northern Pacific Railroad depot waiting area, circa 1910. Source: 'Out of the Woods, A Pictorial History of The Brainerd Lakes Area', Published by The Brainerd Daily Dispatch. Copyright 1994.

28/46:Chicago Tavern on Gilbert Lake circa 1938-1943. Dancing and food. Al LaBarre was the owner. Source: 'Out of the Woods, A Pictorial History of The Brainerd Lakes Area' published by The Brainerd Daily Dispatch. Copyright 1994.

29/46:State Champion was this Brainerd amateur baseball team of 1894, which later saw two of those players advance to the major leagues. Pictured here are (front row) Frary, catcher; Phyle, rf-pit.; Howe, pit., rf; C. McCarthy, 1st; (middle row) Burgum, shortstop, W.P. Buckley, manager; Hill; 3rd; (back row) W. McCarthy, cf; Blandy, lf; Warner, 2nd. Source: 'Brainerd Minnesota 1871 - 1971'. Reproduced from the Centennial Edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch. Copyright 1971.

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35/46:Brainerd Fire Department. Dispatch archives

36/46:W.E. Lively, the hustling Maxwell auto dealer, has sold a Maxwell to Joseph Johnson. Pictured is a Maxwell Mascotte Touring 1911 by Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1526033

37/46:This truck belonged to Silas Hall's Transfer Line just after World War I. It was used for hauling freight from the NP (Northern Pacific Railroad) depot to stores around town as well as for other kinds of moving. The picture was taken in front of the railroad freight office. Before the truck, Silas Hal used teams of horses and wagons which he kept at 415 Main (now Washington Street). Source: Brainerd Minnesota 1871 - 1971. Reproduced from the Centennial Edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch.

38/46:The 1916 Brainerd police force, pictured here, included the following men: The plain clothes men at either end were Jack Brandt (left) and Ted Nesheim; (front row, left to right) Charles Varner, chief, and Tom Templeton. (Rear, left to right) Erick Graff, Hans Saude and August Swanson. Source: Brainerd Minnesota 1871 - 1971. Reproduced from the Centennial Edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch.

39/46:This building at Seventh and Laurel, still a well-known landmark in Brainerd, was the home of the Citizen's State Bank, from 1909 to 1927, when the bank then moved to quarters across the street. This picture was taken in 1913. Source: Brainerd Minnesota 1871 - 1971. Reproduced from the Centennial Edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch.

40/46:The "fill" grounds skating rink, located near Franklin Junior High School, winter of 1938-39. Source: 'Out of the Woods, A Pictorial History of The Brainerd Lakes Area', Published by The Brainerd Daily Dispatch. Copyright 1994.

41/46:60 years ago (1959) (Photo) Robert Dobson, 15, is interested in how long he can keep a kite aloft. He launched a kite at 3 p.m. yesterday near the court house and it's still flying despite a near disaster when a truck caught the kite string. The weatherman says it will remain windy today. Photo illustration, Metro Creative Graphics, Inc.

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43/46:The state hospital campus on Highway 18.

44/46:Santa takes a ride during a Christmas parade in downtown Brainerd.

45/46:Children crowd around Santa during downtown Brainerd Christmas festivities.

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