Mesaba Range News Today

Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.

An article by Fred Thompson contesting the myth that the IWW was smashed by repression during World War I.

EVELETH/GILBERT — Winners in the VFW Patriotic Art Contest in the Eveleth-Gilbert Schools were Hailie Dryer, first place; Gavin Kokal, second place; and Rebecca Muster, third place. Kim Mattson, member of the auxiliary to Mesaba Range VFW Post 1172, is chairwoman of the Patriotic Art and Voice of Democracy contests. Deb Custer, Eveleth-Gilbert art teacher, put together a slideshow of past Patriotic Art national winners as part of the students instruction. There were 27 Eveleth-Gilbert part...

Virginia and Mountain Iron

1901 May 25, 1901-J. Howard and Ed Bergen have formed a partnership in Grand Rapids and have entered into the real estate business. May 25, 1901-Sol Williams, who owns a homestead on the Vermillion, reported to Sheriff Tyndall and gave himself up stating that he had shot and probably killed Jim Morris in Cass County. He claims self-defense. May 25, 1901-Frank F. Price, Grand Rapids attorney, has taken George H. Spear of Brainerd on as a partner.   1911 May 24, 1911-The new settler often make...