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Aunt Minnie died just three years later. Pratt, Minnie (Boettcher) 1863 – 1958 Clayton County Register, Thur. 23 Jan. 1958.…
This is awesome. Looks like its when it was raw ore before the taconite pellet process was needed. I haven’t…
Love this.
Even if the library still retains a copy, I think it’s an issue worth discussing. I would hope that local…
It has been brought to my attention that my original post overstated the depth of the deaccessioning of the Minnesota…
So very unique.
David, Patrick McKinnon was definitely a Duluthian and was friends with Todd Moore who is listed in the Table of…
For my part I am not necessarily judging the hospital expansionism but more like just saying, this is a force…
Thanks for that. I had remembered one of the shows was in daylight and the other was darker so I…
Technically, it was two evening shows — 7 and 9 p.m.
That Weird Al show at the Head of The Lakes Fair was the first concert I ever went to. He…
And an article in the DNT upon her graduation, 1916
Her college yearbook photo.
I had surgery this week, so I’m not probably up to a real search. Here’s what I did find about…
I don’t want to burst any bubbles about the quality of this poetry, but I do think that the Arrowhead…
But saying someone alive in the 1900s is “lost to time” is just a throw-down challenge for history nerds. Most…
Miss Winnifred Elliot appeared quite a few times in the Duluth Herald from the 1920s to the 1940s. She was…
Edith Addison Thomas was a stenographer and railway ticket clerk for the Northern Pacific Railway. For whatever reason, the railway’s…
Many of these people passed away long before their names would have ended up on the internet. Genealogical information (?)…
And now there’s a lyric video.
There in the Woods and Other Poems by Edith Addison Thomas is available at abebooks.com.
And Minnesota Skyline was actually just three posts back from this one. Somehow I forgot the anthology title and only…
I did some digging as well. Her brother lived in Duluth his whole life, and had children (ie Ruth’s nieces…
And if you liked “Minnesota Landscapes,” you should try to find its companion in the series, “Minnesota Skyline”
The papers also include a few pictures. The story of her move to Puerto Rico in 1946 is the last…
There is quite a bit about her time in Duluth in the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub. She was born in…
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Wow! That’s quite an obit for “Ruth from Duluth”! She sounds like an interesting person. I bet there are some…
There is one copy available at Thrift Books online.
Keep up the good work.
Her book, A Way to California, despite being called “distasteful” by the New York Times, is still fairly easy to…
Mrs. Homer Carr (Luella) was mentioned in the newspaper a few times over the years, but mostly for things like…
Loved this one. There were two George Johnsons that served as Duluth mayor, back to back actually. One of them…
Very nice. I shudder to think how much mercury was likely lurking in the floorboard cracks and walls at the…
As a fellow Duluth hater and destroyer of buckthorn, I hope you are already using a weed wrench type tool.…
I liked seeing in the newspaper spread the connection with another Twin Ports hotel of the time … and with…
Foxes & Fireflies does offer gift certificates. They can be purchased at the store during regular hours, 3 to 7…
The perspective of the 1965 photo does seem to make it look like Beacon Point jutted our farther, and it…
How can I purchase a birthday gift certificate for someone’s birthday?
Always nice to hear a new song played under the Perfect Duluth Day label.
Is it just me, or is Beacon Pointe sticking out way farther into the lake than it does today?
The Depression was not kind to this company. It went out of business in 1933.
Also, here’s a photo from around that opening time.
Well, there was some coverage the next day. Cigars for the men, and ??? for the women. One store of…
I want to know what the souvenir and the “surprise event” was later in the evening! From the ad:
According to the Duluth Herald on July 17, 1913, the airplane was also used for filming. That movie has likely…
Wow! Not much has changed on that block since 1909. Someone should probably go visit the rock and get a…
The 1909 Sanborn map shows there actually once was a house at 714, on the same lot as the rock…
It’s possible. All those houses predate aerial imagery so there is no way to know for certain. But the first…
Nice!! Devil’s advocate here, though: could that rock be left over from the building process of that neighboring building? It…
“All cities have a particular and special beverage suited to them.” — Djuna Barnes
I can see my house from here!
Wait, what? You can’t post an article about a barnyard dance at a ballroom without elaborating. That was a thing?…
‘My little cow’ is certainly the most reasonable interpretation that I have seen so far. And just from a brief…
Or.. lilla could also mean purple in more modern Norsk. In which case it’s My Purple Cow. I think it’s…
Actually, maybe it’s “Milillaku” which would be My Little Cow… haha.
To me that looks like a nickname in Norwegian, starting with “mililla…” and I don’t know the last three or…
Ha – that’s nice. I certainly did enjoy being part of the group effort. But anyone coming across this later…
And what, may I ask, was Magnus’ favorite color? 😉 Seriously, this is an utterly mind boggling post and series…
Those are some good concluding details. So it’s a photo of the house at 6109 Olney St. where the family…
And yes, if a home had a second door/apartment or was a duplex, it was often listed as two addresses…
Here’s a bit more info about the Alveson Brothers (which later became Duluth Tent and Awning and later the Duluth…
And finally, Gina found something that ended up being a bit overlooked in the effort to pin down the exact…
I like the image by itself for its weirdness but as I suspected the ChatGPT isn’t up to rendering the…