History of New Rockford: February 19, 2018

The June 21, 1901, edition of the “Transcript” slammed state’s attorney P.M. Mattson in one long and eight short items. Mattson was called a “carbuncle,” a “store dummy,” and in his own newspaper, the “Provost,” admitted he didn’t know he could be prosecuted until he read it in the “Minneapolis Journal.” Mattson was a “spitefully notorious whelp,” a “puddenhead,” and was accused by the “Transcript...