News-Tribune, Feb. 1, 1925
If the pages of the 25,000 copies of Duluth's new telephone directory were placed end to end and side by side, they would form a wall 14 feet high around the entire city. Duluth's first directory was printed in 1888 on a 3-by-6 card and contained 30 numbers.
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News-Tribune, Feb. 1, 1955
Richard Kangas, 68, was sentenced to life in prison for the Jan. 10 shooting death Karl Aho, 80, a fellow resident of the First Street Hotel.
News-Tribune & Herald, Feb. 1, 1985
Duluthians Shirley Plaisted and Joanne Washburn were mistaken for extras in the Meryl Streep movie "Falling in Love" while exiting Tiffany's on Fifth Avenue on a recent vacation to New York. The director told them they should get behind Streep on the sidewalk, so they did. The pair can be seen a few minutes before the end of the film.
News Tribune, Feb. 1, 2005
A Superior teen accused of extorting $500 from his grandparents by faking his own kidnapping pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully using a telephone.
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