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Interview recorded at Worthington City Hall. Subjects discussed include the Great Depression in Worthington, Nobles County; Public utilities operation in 1930's; World War I; Air Travel; includes 1 photo.

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Topics cover: Julius Schmahl, Secretary of State and Treasurer in Minnesota 1906-1946; Prohibition; Changes in the field of pharmacy; Great Depression; Farm Holiday Association; New Deal Legislation of the 1930s

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Ideas for a college using references from: Mission of the University by Jose Y. Gasset; The Higher learning in America by Robert Maynard Hutchins; Personalism by Emanuel Monet

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Oral history interview. Major Subjects Discussed: Minnesota Farm Holiday Association; Great Depression Minnesota; Includes photograph of John Bosch interview; (NFHA). Bosch was president of the Minnesota Farm Holiday Association.

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Major Subjects Discussed: Fulda Light and Power Company; Prohibition; Ku Klux Klan; Great Depression; Rural Electrification Association (REA); Applicance business in Fulda - First electric appliances; Threshing machines (description of his 1884 Case experimental model); Also includes: 10 photos of early stove, refrigerator, Fulda power plant, and Mr. Buschena. Newspaper article: "John Buschena, Electricity and Fulda Grow Up Together," Worthington Globe, July 12, 1972.

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Oral History interview of Micahel Kaelk: Development of the student affairs program at Southwest Minnesota State College; Early decision making processes at SMSC; Minority concerns at SMSC; Includes 5 slides of Michael Kaelke interview; Kaelke was Dean of Students, University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, and first Dean of Students of SMSC

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Topics discussed: Farm life in Slayton, (late 19th century to present); Great Depression; Farm Holiday Association; Rural Electrification Association

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Major Subjects Discussed: Farmers in the early days of Redwood Falls, MN. (1920's-30's); New Deal farm programs; Influence of University of Minnesota; REA - Rural Electrification Association; School board experiences in Redwood Falls (1930's). Slides, negatives, contact sheets.

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Senator Josefson is of Icelandic descent and has farmed in Lyon and Lincoln Counties most of his life. Senator Josefson served 18 years as township and county farm program committeeman. Elected to the Minnesota State Senate in 1954; re-elected in 1958,1962, 1966, and 1970, and 1972. (transcript edited)

Scope and Contents Major Subjects Discussed: Cost and attendance of college (1930's); Teaching in rural school Lyon County (1930's); Horsedrawn buses; REA - Rural Electrification Association in Lyon County (1930's); Early electrical appliances; Protective Land Use Association; Attacks on and support of public power districts; Farm Holiday Association; Disadvantages of country schools (1930's) when compared to today's consolidated school districts. Ku Klux Klan in Lyon County. Audio recording on reels,...