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Tornadoes Toxic Waste and Stunts in 1926 | Duluth News
A deadly 1926 tornado tore through Wisconsin, flattening the Pat Galligan family’s farmhouse and killing at least five people as it carved a destructive path from Chisholm to Ashland. Meanwhile, Bayfield’s city council moved to curb nightlife with a new ordinance banning off-sale liquor after 11 PM. Twenty years earlier, Silver Bay battled a different kind of disaster—environmental cleanup of toxic waste left by Reserve Mining. And in the same year, a stuntman took a daring leap from the Aerial Bridge, proving 1926 was a year of wild headlines, from storms to stunts to policy shifts. Listen…
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