John Thabes News Today

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.

JANUARY 11 20 years ago (1992) (Photo) From a helicopter, the thousands of anglers competing in the Brainerd Jaycees $100,000 Ice Fishing Extravaganza looked like specks arranged in rows on Gull Lake. Don Ruppert of Brainerd won the Ford F-150 4x...

38 / 50 W.E. Lively, the hustling Maxwell auto dealer, has sold a Maxwell to Joseph Johnson. Pictured is a Maxwell Mascotte Touring 1911 by Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1526033 39 / 50 This truck belonged to Silas Halls Transfer Line just after World War I. It was used for hauling freight from the NP (Northern Pacific Railroad) depot to stores around town as well as for other kinds of moving. The picture was taken in fron...