Robert Jordon of Brainerd, helped a friend prepare for winter by hanging her storm windows on her house. Area residents have found this to be a common sight as recent temperatures have dipped well below freezing.
30 years ago (1978)
Yes, Brainerd, there is a bypass. It exists in the minds of local and state highway officials. Not only that, the wheels are in motion to make that bypass a reality by late 1985 or early 1986.
40 years ago (1968)
Fresh dressed, cut-up
¥ Fryers, 29¢ pound.
¥ Beet sugar, 10 pound bag, 89¢.
¥ Grade A Eggs, 49¢ dozen.
Schaefer's Model Food Market.
60 years ago (1948)
Temperatures plunged below freezing in this Brainerd area last night and this morning the first frost of the season appeared on foliage and gardens in the locality. From a maximum of 59 degrees yesterday the mercury dropped to 28 degrees during the night.
80 years ago (1928)
High School Brainonian jokes:
¥ Zane Smith: I think my voice is changing.
Dick Ebert: I hope so.
100 years ago (1908)
Leon E. Lum is entertaining a party of friends at his cottage at Hubert, they, having gone up there this afternoon. Mrs. Fannie E. Smith, Misses Winnie and Eloise, Nellie Benjamin and Judge C.A. Albright were among the guests.
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