Bygones: North Shore highway was deadly in 1954

News-Tribune, Nov. 14, 1924

A grocery store holdup man was critically wounded in a shootout with a storekeeper at 202 W. Third St. Store owner B.B. Bartow's trigger finger was shot off in the incident, and he took two more bullets before shooting the gunman in the stomach. Bartow is expected to survive, but the gunman is not.

News-Tribune, Nov. 14, 1954

So far this year, there has been one traffic fatality on the North Shore for every 18 miles of Minnesota Highway 61. Eight people have died on the road since June 27, more than double the death toll for any year since 1950.

News-Tribune & Herald, Nov. 14, 1984

The Duluth school district will hire a Hastings, Minnesota, law firm to sue asbestos companies to recover the $170,000 it has spent to remove asbestos uncovered during a remodeling project at Central High School.

News Tribune, Nov. 14, 2004

Advanced Data-Comm will eliminate 56 positions at its Superior call center. The center mostly does third-party verification for long-distance carriers. But the do-not-call list indirectly affected the center, manager Jennifer Lundberg-Gavin said.