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My Health Minnesota –Go Local!
Free online directory of health care services and providers throughout Minnesota. Search by location, providers, facilities, services, diseases, or health issues. This site also has a link to MedlinePlus, which is a great site for general health and disease information.
U.S. Federal and Minnesota Information on the I-35W Bridge
Includes information from the Federal Highway Administration and the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Bridge Inspection Reports included.
Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library
News Tribune
July 30, 1967
Joseph Hawthorne of Provincetown, Mass., former conductor of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, has been engaged as conductor of the Duluth Symphony Orchestra for the 1967-68 season. Hawthorne succeeds Hermann Herz, conductor for the past 17 years.
Fire and explosions ravaged the U.S. aircraft carrier Forrestal in the Tonkin Gulf yesterday, killing at least 46 crewmen and injuring 56 others. Several men from Northeastern Minnesota serve aboard the Forrestal.
News Tribune
July 30, 1987
The AIDS scare has slowed the donation of blood, an official with Blood Donors Inc. said yesterday in Duluth. Executive Director Red Tucker said the blood supply in Northeastern Minnesota is dwindling.
The turnout for tours during the USS Oliver Hazzard Perry’s four-day visit to Duluth, which ended yesterday, is expected to total about 15,000. The Perry leaves today for Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Local news from 20 and 40 years ago from the Duluth News-Tribune. This column appears daily Monday through Saturday in the Duluth News-Tribune. Researched and written by the Reference Staff at the Duluth Public Library.
News Tribune
July 9, 1967
Starting at 1 p.m. today, 53 boys will race in the Duluth Soap Box Derby championship on the Hartley Field Derby Track. The track is one of just eleven in the country owned by a local derby.
The 1967 Duluth Seaway Portorama celebration will be “the biggest in the eight-year history of the event,” David Allison, Portorama general chairman, said yesterday. An estimated 30,000 area residents are expected to purchase Portorama buttons.
News Tribune
July 9, 1987
District Court Judges Charles Barnes and David Bouschor said yesterday that St. Louis County doesn’t need the new jail recommended last week by a citizens committee. The judges said upgrading the old jail would be sufficient for the county’s needs.
Tickets for the Concorde supersonic jetliner’s flight from Duluth to London sold out this week. The round-trip flight, selling for $2,499, is scheduled to leave Duluth on July 27.
White City 1906
From the Duluth Public Library slide collection
From the 7/4/1907 Duluth Herald
Duluth Central High School Debate Team, 1932-33
From the Zenith (Duluth Central High School Yearbook), 1933
Abraham Kaplan and Irving Copi
Noted philosophers, writers, and teachers, Abraham Kaplan and Irving Copi both grew up in Duluth, Minnesota. Kaplan’s family immigrated to the United States from Russia, arriving in Duluth when Abraham was six years of age. Copi was born in Duluth as Irving Copilowish.
Kaplan was younger than Copi but was a year ahead of him at Duluth Central High School, starting there at the age of thirteen in 1931. According to Copi, they first met at debate team tryouts in 1932 and quickly became friends. Kaplan was captain of that debate team.
After graduation from high school in 1933, Kaplan attended the Duluth Junior College for two years, then went off to the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Copi graduated from Duluth Central in 1934 and then attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. They both returned to Duluth during the summer breaks and spent their time reading and discussing philosophy, according to Copi.
During the 1938-39 academic year, when both men were attending graduate school, they arranged to study at the University of Chicago, where Bertrand Russell was a guest lecturer.
