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Tuesday February 3rd 2026
What and Where is this in PHILLIPS Community?
Identify what and where of these photos and win a chance for a drawing for a $10.00 Gift Certificate to Welna Hardware on Bloomington Avenue. Email us the answer.
Hint: It was news in June that this corner will have a $21M change in 2011.
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Alice”'s murder exploited by vagaries of politicos and publishers
Phase I of the fence restoration is scheduled to begin in late July. Thanks to all of you who helped make it possible. Additional funds are needed to complete Phase II, the final phase of the restoration. Enough money has been contributed for 430 of the 1,583 pickets. There”'s still plenty of time to adopt a picket
Roosevelt, Taft, politicos, prostitution, Titanic dominate headlines
by Sue Hunter Weir
Alice Mathews led a rather ordinary life except for one thing: she was murdered. On Saturday, March 23, 1912, the night that she was murdered, Alice was twenty years old. She worked as a packer at the Pillsbury C Mill and lived with her father, stepmother and four siblings in South Minneapolis. Alice had spent the evening downtown going to a movie and having a late supper with two of her girlfriends. At 11:06, Alice caught the Cedar Avenue streetcar. She got off on 34th Street and Cedar Avenue, the end of the line, and started to walk home, a distance of about seven blocks. When Alice was within a few houses of her own home, someone attempted to rape her. Failing that, her attacker strangled her.
The story of Alice”'s murder was front-page news for the next three weeks.… Read the rest “Alice”'s murder exploited by vagaries of politicos and publishers”
Searching ”“ A Serial Novelle Chapter 16: El Corrido De Don Jaime
By Patrick Cabello Hansel
When Angel and Luz arrived at her abuela”'s house, the whole neighborhood was gathered. Children running everywhere, elderly women dancing to scratchy phonograph records from Mexico. Even though it was freezing outside, Luz”'s cousin Rodrigo was in the backyard, turning steaks and sausages on a large grill cut from an oil drum. People who had run in terror from the raid just a few hours before were partying as if Mexico had just won the World Cup. Luz finally found her grandmother Dolores in the kitchen. Over the noise, she asked her what happened.
“Your Uncle Jaime is free!” she shouted as she gave her a big hug.
“What?” Luz cried. “Immigration let him go?”
“No, mi amor””he escaped””he flew the coop””¡voló como un paloma!”
It took a few moments for this to sink in.
“Where? How? Abuela, they”'re going to come looking for him! They”'ll bust the door down!” Luz shouted.
“No-no, he”'s safe””he”'s not here””he”'s miles away and they”'ll never catch him again!”
Luz wasn”'t quite sure what that meant, and kept shaking her head. Angel, meanwhile, stood with his hands in his pockets, surrounded by people whom he did not know, but who surely knew Luz.… Read the rest “Searching ”“ A Serial Novelle Chapter 16: El Corrido De Don Jaime”
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