...their ladies admitted free. 80 years ago (1923) With a tremendous vote cast early this morning, 800 ballots, Miss Irene Turcotte leaped to first place with a total of 1,679 votes in the "Miss Brainerd Dispatch Beauty Contest." 100 years ago...

...invasion thrust next move -- Defense unit backs tank corps increase; air training okayed 80 years ago (1920) -- Miss Irene Turcotte has accepted a position as a clerk at the Citizen State Bank of Brainerd. She is a recent high school graduate...

...74 over the 1947-48 budget with expenditures of $499,692.28. 80 years ago (1928) Bulletin board: Miss Irene Turcotte returned last night from a ten-day vacation spent with relatives and friends in Duluth and St. Paul. Mrs. Anne...

...Ten are nominated in Beauty Contest for "Miss Dispatch." Miss Dorothy Carmichiel, Miss Beatrice Olson, Miss Irene Turcotte, Miss Ella Olson, Miss Elsie Branchaud, Miss Geraldine Kiebler, Miss Henrietta Lewis, Miss Nana Larson, Miss...

...President -- Alice R. Johnson; Vice President -- Ione Rowley; Secretary -- Virginia F. Casey; Treasurer -- Irene Turcotte; Librarian -- Beatrice Peters. 100 years ago (1900) -- The whir-r-r of the alarm clock is an eye opener...