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| March 1919 Lt. Larrabee set a flight speed record from Minneapolis to Duluth of 90 minutes. Â This picture is of one of his Jenny airplanes. Â It is thought that Larrabee is the person on the ladde... |
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03-11-2020
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| First phone company started in Duluth in 1881 with 15 customers, one year later they had 30 customers and at the turn of the century 753 customers. Picture is of the phone patented in 1881 by Alexa... |
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02-13-2020
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| Mary Le Flohic, Madame Gain, was found guilty of running an immoral house in 1914. The Grand Jury found a list of police officers who received payouts. Zenith Web Site image |
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02-05-2020
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| Helen Keller lectured in Duluth at the Lyceum in 1914. She was accompanied by her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy. Zenith Web Site |
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02-01-2020
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| January 1893 the Minnesota Blast Furnace Co. of West Duluth used the first iron ore from Mesabi Range. The ore was so pure that no other chemicals were needed to produce quality steel. Zenith Web Site |
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01-26-2020
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| Aerial Lift Bridge first opens to the public January 12, 1930. Zenith Web Site |
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01-12-2020
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| Miss Roy McGregor was Duluth's first police woman. Hired in 1917 her duties included visiting the dance halls, chop suey houses and walking the town sidewalks to assure that there was no impr... |
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01-09-2020
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| 1895 Fond du Lac reluctantly joins the city of Duluth. A french word meaning the bottom of the lake covered all of Duluth and Superior area prior to the settlement of Europeans . This 1900 -1915 po... |
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01-01-2020
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| Esko store was opened in December 1919 by Fritz and son Alex Esko at the intersection of Scanlon Rd. and 'Duluth-Twin Cities Hwy.' Other businesses set up in the area over time and it became ... |
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12-26-2019
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| Dec. 24, 1914 Mayor Prince threw the switch that lighted Duluth's first Municipal Christmas Tree, a spruce, located in front of the St. Louis County Court House. The paper stated that thousands att... |
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12-25-2019
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| West Duluth Peoples Brewery was established in 1908 at 4230 West Second  St. Closed in 1956 and was razed in 1975.  Parts that still remain house Brock-White and Serve-Pro.  Public Library Image... |
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11-20-2019
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| Proctorknott was the person whose name was used as the name of the village in 1894, shortened to Proctor by the US Postal Service in 1904, and became the city of Proctor in 1939. Zenith Web Site |
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11-07-2019
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