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WORTHINGTON -- I think we have to go to New Ulm these days to find a German restaurant. There once were more of them through the region -- at least there were more restaurants operated by people with German origins. The old story was that a man at a German restaurant complained to...

WORTHINGTON -- It is fitting, now and again, to remember the men who first observed Memorial Day. These were the Union Army veterans of the Civil War. The boys in blue organized themselves not as the American Legion, not as the VFW, but as the GAR, the Grand Army of Republic. After...

WORTHINGTON -- Maybe Worthington loved Charles Holman. Speed Holman. Or, maybe only some people at Worthington came to love Holman. Surely he was a romantic figure. Now and again one of these columns hits on a topic or a personality which stirs a swirl of comments. People read lately...

WORTHINGTON -- Well -- we are almost there. We sleep one more time and then - Sunday is the big day -- Minnesotans will celebrate Minnesota's 150th birthday. Minnesota, hats off to thee! Happy birthday! Many, many more! There will be much in Minnesota to see and do all year long....

WORTHINGTON -- This is the time we have waited for and we are getting impatient. It is spring. It is time to plant. Only one thing stands in the way. Winter. Now and again I have heard people saying how great it would be if only there could be a harvest without a planting -- walk...

WORTHINGTON -- Northwest Airlines is no more. After 82 years, Northwest Airline's identity was erased Monday when the pioneer Minnesota airline merged with Delta Air Lines, creating the world's largest air carrier. The announcement of the merger stirred memories of the long ago...

WORTHINGTON -- Now and again a story or an interview from a day long gone will come mind. I thought lately of a wonderful love story. I talked with Achsah Payton Christensen at Slayton in 1984, when she was 91. (Achsah is from the Bible, she said; she cited the verses from Joshua...

WORTHINGTON -- Adolf Hitler "is a real friend of the common man in Germany." Adolf Hitler "has done more for the German people ... than any past or present ruler in Europe." Herr Hitler "walks quite democratically down the street, and men and women stop in their tasks to look, smile...

WORTHINGTON -- This was a while ago. A girl said to me, "You worked for newspapers for a long time, didn't you?" "Yes," I said, "I did. I still do, more or less. Less than more." "The reason I mention this," the girl said, "I would like to work for a newspaper some day." "Do you...

WORTHINGTON -- If you are keeping a list, there is one more reason for drinking coffee or, at least, for having coffee close at hand. If you should be called to help with a horse brought down by encephalitis -- sleeping sickness -- you will need coffee. A Texas veterinarian, Ben...

WORTHINGTON -- "Write something about summer," a woman said. She was shaking a finger at me. "I am sick and tired of winter. You tell a summer story." What? Roses in bloom? Picnic? Walk around the lake? What? Now and again this column has focused on circuses. Circuses are summer....

WORTHINGTON -- Mark Shepherd came up with a surprise. Mark was searching on the Internet when: "I came across something curious. I noticed a reference on the Minnesota Secretary of State's Web site to an incorporation filed on June 20, 1891 for 'The Young Men's Christian Association...

WORTHINGTON -- We can scarcely walk through downtown Worthington without having fleeting thought of Buffalo Bill. I mean: There, on the corner of 10th Street and Fourth Avenue, is Buffalo Billfold Co, owned by Bill and Lauri Keitel. Leather creations of many descriptions, all made...

WORTHINGTON -- Jennie Covey, Nellie Stevens and Marguerite Wright probably will ride on a Turkey Day float for their class reunion. Jennie, Nellie and Marguerite are the Worthington High School Class of '92 (1892). This year brings their 116th anniversary.

WORTHINGTON -- I drove east on 60 one of these February mornings to get a winter glimpse of that two-mile railyard Union Pacific developed between Worthington and Brewster through the summer past. I kept the speedometer at 60; I didn't want to dawdle in Highway 60 traffic. Still,...