Best loved woman in state 82 years old Maria Sanford sees new war to be fought and won Minneapolis Morning Tribune, December 20, 1918 excerpt - . . . And at 82, with that world war won for the winning of which she traveled tirelessly all over Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana, denying herself even the comforts of a sleeping car berth that "the boys'" might be transported more expeditiously calling everywhere she went for a new national unity of spirit -- . . . |