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20 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 10, 2001
v In light of state pollution control red tape, the planned sewer project in the west end appeared to come to a halt late last fall. It was temporarily brought back to life at the last county board meeting. At that time, commissioners voted to pay for a number of pipes to be installed under the roadbed now under construction by the state Department of Transportation. The pipes will not be used until and unless the state pollution control requirements for the project can be be satisfied. vLoggers, paper mills and lumber mills received some good news last week when the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced it plans on increasing the state’s timber harvest on state lands by 15 percent over the next three years.
30 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 9, 1991
vUntil two weeks ago, the idea of upgrading Highway 61 from Schroeder to Grand Marais was just a distant dream for highway planners.Suddenly, however, the project has been moved to the front burner after being earmarked for $18 million in federal funds as part of the transportation bill passed last month by Congress. Having the money means the project itself will probably be started within the current highway bill, sometime within six years. vFor members of two local families a snowmobile outing Thanksgiving evening turned into a frightening and probably expensive experience. When it was all over, four Polaris Indy snowmobiles had broken through the ice and were lost. Three people ended up in the frigid water of Devil Track Lake before reaching safety. Attempts to locate and recover the snowmobiles in the following days failed because of thin ice and poor light.
60 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 7, 1961
vTwenty-eight sailors spent a night drifting in Lake Superior when the Canadian coal carrier Captain C.D. Secord broke loose from the steamer Thomas Shaughennessy in heavy seas on Monday. The ship ended up adrift about nine miles southeast of Rock of Ages Lighthouse near Isle Royale. vAn all-night drizzle Sunday night may have been largely responsible for loosening tons of rock that fell on the highway at the Silver Creek Cliff. The rock pile blocked Highway 61 for half an hour Monday morning. One car and a Greyhound Bus arrived just after the rock-slide occurred. A volunteer crew hastily removed enough rock to let traffic pass. A backlog of cars had formed while the first rocks were tossed or pushed lakeward.
100 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 15, 1921
vJohn V. Nelson is in receipt of a new violin, a very fine instrument so we are informed.
vThe loggers are rejoicing as much over the snow as the mail drivers are regretting it.
vEmil Anderson of Colvill was in town this week buying his household furniture for his new home.
vOn the way to Duluth Tuesday, the mail bus was stalled at Cramer where an axle was broken.
115 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 1, 1906
vTHE WORLD’S CHAMPION BORROWER BECOMES A CHAMPION THIEF Adolph Segal owes the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia more than five million dollars. Yet little more than twenty years ago, he came to this country from Austria in the steerage and did not have one dollar to rub against another. When the institution collapsed recently, it was found that the funds and securities had been withdrawn to finance the schemes of Adolph Segal. The president of the bank, who had loaned the money to Segal, escaped the penitentiary by shooting himself. Adolph Segal is charged with embezzlement, conspiracy, and perjury. The shadow of the penitentiary looms before him. Adolph looks like a musician with his dark curling hair and dark soulful eyes. His voice is gifted with a marvelous persuasiveness that was applied to the wheedling of money from those who had it. Adolph Segal began with soap manufacturing in Philadelphia on a capital sum of $300. He invented a new process for making wax paper and sold it to a New York company for $20,000. He moved to Camden, New Jersey, and made money as a merchant. Then he saw a chance to get control of the Camden warehouses. He also decided to pit his abilities against the mighty sugar trust with its millions. With the prestige of these successes, Adolph Segal and his wealthy patron Frank Hipple (President of the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia) were able to launch many other business schemes. Altogether, Segal has $12,000,000 tied up in various enterprises. The greater part of these millions were borrowed against poor security or no security.
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