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10 years ago (2005)
•City Administrator John Call attended his first Luverne City Council meeting Tuesday. ...
He started the job Monday and will spend the first few weeks working closely with department heads, meeting people in the general public and familiarizing himself with current issues in the city of Luverne.
 
20 years ago (1995)
•For the second time in less than a year, Casey’s General Store on South Highway 75, Luverne, was held up by an armed robber Saturday night.
On Feb. 26, the same Casey’s store in Luverne was robbed at gunpoint.
 
50 years ago (1965)
•A new doctor of chiropractic has opened offices here. He is Dr. William L. Preuss, St. Paul, who will practice his profession in the offices vacated by Dr. F. W. Bofenkamp on the second floor of the old First National Bank building.
 
75 years ago (1940)
•Rock County’s young men between the ages of 21 and 35 will go to the regular election polling places in their respective precincts next Wednesday, the 16th, to register under the nation’s first peacetime compulsory military training law.
Latest estimates concerning the number in the county who will be affected by this historic measure sets the figure at 1,708, or approximately 15 per cent of the county’s total population.
 
100 years ago (1915)
•According to announcement made this week by the owners of Luverne’s two dairies, patrons of the Eureka and Pleasant Hill dairies will be required to pay an increased price for milk beginning with November 1st. Under the rates that have been in force for some time, patrons have been paying 7 cents a quart for milk or $1 for fourteen quarts, but under the new rates a charge of 8 cents a quart or 12 ½ quarts for $1 will be made.

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