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(03-25-2019 07:52 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Eva, that is a very logical guess, but kudos to Laurie. The associate professor, whose name was Maury Ostrander, made the piece into a tie clasp. The article about this comes from the Minneapolis Star, but I don't have an exact date for the newspaper.

I think Roger and I are reading the same newspaper clipping, sent to us by forum member, Dr. Blaine Houmes. Both Blaine and I were surprised to see (for the first time, we think) that the fire was started by a boy burning trash.

I also looked for a date on the newspaper clipping, but had to do some arithmetic. The fire was in March of 1911, and the article states the Lincoln coach "burned in a fire in Columbia Heights just 53 years ago Wednesday." That would date the article to 1964 - even though the copy makes it appear much older. Yikes! It was written when I was in college.