11 October 2024
News-Tribune, Oct. 11, 1924
Unmoved by the urging and veiled threats of 200 attendees, the Duluth Board of Education, by 8-1, voted down a resolution mandating compulsory daily Bible reading in public schools. Some members of the crowd distinctly said, “Hang them,” referring to the board members as “jellyfish” and “angleworms.”
News-Tribune, Oct. 11, 1954
Two Scanlon men were killed and two more were injured when their car plunged over a 75-foot cliff into Lake Superior near the Lakewood pumping station. The deaths bring Duluth’s traffic fatalities to 15 so far this year.
News-Tribune & Herald, Oct. 11, 1984
Duluth District Court Judge David S. Bouschor ordered the acquittal of William Charles Nelson, who was convicted in a robbery case last month. Bouschor claimed that the jury was mistaken in its decision.
News Tribune, Oct. 11, 2004
The body of a 21-year-old University of Minnesota Duluth student was recovered early Sunday from the rocks along Chester Creek, just below the Eighth Street bridge. The man apparently fell from a ledge about 40 feet above.
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