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plows the land for free as the company has done for many of the victory gardens in the Hopkins vicinity.

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Minikahda Donates Golf Land for Victory Gardens (1943)
Source: Hennepin County Library

The grounds committee at the Minikahda Club has donated several big plots of its golf course for use as victory gardens. Here, an unidentified employee with the Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company ...

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Janet Shedlov (1933)
3301 Girard Ave. S
Source: Hennepin County Library

Janet Shedlov is engaged to Irving B. Jarvis.

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Mrs. Julia Dillberg (1936)
1502 Clinton Ave.
Source: Hennepin County Library

Dillberg's slain body has been found in a Northeast Minneapolis peat bog on 13th Ave. NE between Hayes and Garfield Streets NE. Police are investigating the death. See P32522.

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Nikolai Graudan, Cellist
Source: Hennepin County Library

First violoncellist of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

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Local Beauty Queens Watch Track Stars at University Stadium (1946)
Source: Hennepin County Library

L to R: Grant (University Snow Week Queen), Lindstrom (Minneapolis Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes), Peterson (St. Paul Winter Carnival Queen)

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Mrs. Lester B. Elwood, Jr. (1938)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Elwood is a member of the Figure Skating Club of Minneapolis.

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Phil Oates (1946)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Minneapolis Millers, pitcher

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Zero Weather? No Hazard (1935)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Cold weather is no problem for the unidentified members of the St. Theresa Girls Club of the Holy Name Church.

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also experimenting with creating milk out of soybeans to help with food shortages in China.

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China Chemist Works on Milk-from-Soybean Experiment (1946)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Dr. Tsuing Chen, chemist from Chungking, China, is at the University of Minnesota Farm campus trying to use soybeans as a substitute for yeast extract on which to grow the new drug, streptomycin. He is ...

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Jane Hansen and George Roley (1945)
5424 France Ave. S (Hansen); 3850 Queen Ave. N (Roley)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Jane Marie Hansen and United States Army Staff Sergeant George Edward Roley are engaged to be married.

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Dr. L. H. Cornell (1921)
12 15th St. E
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Dr. Cornell, a dentist in Minneapolis, holds his $7,000 Stradivarius violin, said to be the finest violin in the Northwest.

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Grace Blaisdell (1932)
Source: Hennepin County Library

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Eddie Curran Arrested for Shooting (1921)
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Edward Curran of Minneapolis was arrested for fatally shooting Earl Cavanaugh (not pictured) over a liquor deal gone bad. Here, he is pictured in a mugshot. (companion mugshot with P29982)

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Mural on the Back of the Whittier Kmart Store (1978)
2843 Nicollet Ave.
Source: Hennepin County Library

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Hirshfield and Son, Inc. (1937)
824 Hennepin Ave.
Source: Hennepin County Library

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Lester Barnard (1931)
Source: Hennepin County Library

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Miller Vocational Hospital School of Nursing (1944)
5511 Lyndale Ave. S (Miller Vocational Hospital)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Engebretson, a Junior in the program, makes a bed.

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Hazel Mackie (1934)
4207 Abbott Ave. S
Source: Hennepin County Library

Mrs. John H. W. Mackie on horseback.

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Reverend William H. Boddy (1936)
Source: Hennepin County Library

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Minnesota College of Law Annual Dinner (1940)
Source: Hennepin County Library

For junior and senior students at the Curtis hotel. L to R: George Smith, James E. Moore, Judge Arthur W. Selover

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Apostolic Faith Church (1936)
1534 24th St. E
Source: Hennepin County Library.

Later renamed Primera Iglesia Apostolica de la Fe en Cristo Jesus.

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Lewis Midler (1936)
Source: Hennepin County Library

Midler is a member of the University of Minnesota Gophers football team, right tackle position.

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Rufus L. Adair, Jr. (1945)
Source: Hennepin County Library

United States Army Captain Adair, from Atlanta, Georgia, sits at a desk in the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant.

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