The Agriculture Department has more than doubled funding for a program to help rebuild grain storage capacity in regions hit by storms in 2021 and 2022, but agency officials say the additional funds will likely not be enough to cover the high number of applications they have seen.
Alma Lessie Noll Ames Simonson, 96, of Bemidji, died Saturday, May 25, 2007, at North Country Regional Hospital in Bemidji. A funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Olson-Schwartz Funeral Home of Bemidji with the Rev. Kent Dudley officia.
Tucked on the northeastern edge of South Dakota, the Big Stone Pumpkin Patch draws thousands of people each year to pick their own pumpkin, enjoy a hayride and learn about rural life. As the business…
And a Duluth Herald reporter opened his story about the incident in verse. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
In 1903, John Simonson pulled the teeth of random people near Lake Avenue in Duluth. (Minnesota Historical Society / Duluth Herald)
Imagine an attack so random and depraved that when a Duluth Herald reporter set out to write about the incident, he started the story with … a poem.
“Up from Lake Avenue at break of day / bringing the police a fresh dismay / came a roaring, rumbling, rattling rip / as a tooth-jerking jigger plied a forcep,” was the prologue to a 1903 story with the headline: “A freakish bent,” then “John Simonson pulls teeth indiscriminately on Lake Avenue. Removes them forcibly despite remonstrances of those attacked.”