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Duluth Herald Nov. 13, 1896

Duluth Herald
Nov. 12, 1888
THE CITY.
The new electric company is stringing its wires and making preparations to start up in business shortly.
Democrats are still paying election bets, and there is not a hat store in town where any plug hats are left.
There is no probability that the chamber of commerce building will be ready for occupancy before the spring of 1891.
The contracts for there dredging and improving of Duluth harbor will be let tomorrow by Major Quinn. This contract embraces the dredging in Duluth harbor along the east side of Rice’s Point, and along the north dock line to Grassy Point, and is of great importance.
A contract of Duluth weather with that of Indiana, Kansas and other middle states is certainly to the credit of the northern climate. While there they have had snow and blizzards and the meanest of fall weather that can be imagined we at Duluth have been blessed with the delightfully balmy pleasant days. The bright and sunny weather now enjoyed here would make a Kansan turn green with envy. Even other parts of the Lake Superior country the weather has been anything but pleasant. Severe storms, accompanied by snow and driving sleet, have in the last two days swept almost the entire chain of lakes, and from Marquette to Buffalo vessels have been driven to shelter. Here there has not been one severe storm this year.

Duluth Herald Nov. 16, 1916

Duluth Herald
Nov. 13, 1896
A Sad and Fatal Accident Near Eveleth.
Last Saturday afternoon, about 3 p.m., J. Hostettler, a highly respected resident of this place, while out deer hunting shot and mortally wounded one Luke Kichlivickil, who was occupied in the same sport, says the Eveleth Star. The ball entered the hip of the unfortunate victim, and but one yell and a moan were the only evidences he made of being shot. In less than five minutes after the ball passed into the body he was dead.

A brother was also out hunting with him, and was only a short distance away when the fatal accident occurred. Joseph Hostettler at once started for Eveleth, a distance of about two and a half miles west, and upon arriving, acquainted Officer Shortall and Deputy Coroner Darms. In less than fifteen minutes a half dozen able bodied men, with a team of horses, accompanied Mr. Hostettler back to the tragic scene, where they carried the poor victim on a stretcher through the woods to a sleigh road and thence to his boarding house at the Fayal.

A coroner’s inquest was held and a verdict rendered exonerating Mr. Hostettler, who proved without doubt, it was accidental. The dead man was of Austrian descent, and leaves a wife and family in the old country to mourn his loss.

Duluth Herald Nov. 14, 1906

Duluth Herald
Nov. 14, 1906
WOULD CLOSE
BLIND PIGS
Pike Lake Residents Urge Authorities
to Make Investigation.
Between the attempt of certain interests to induce the board of county commissioners to permit a licensed saloon at Pike Lake, and the fight that is being made by other interests to keep out the saloons, blind pigs and houses of questionable repute, that particular town in St. Louis county is attracting more attention than some of the property owners there really desire. Various attempts have been made by parties to secure a liquor license, and petitions and counter petitions have been sent to the county commissioners, but up to the present time no license has been granted, in fact one application that has been on file some time was turned down at the last meeting of the county board.

The complaints that are reaching the ears of the county authorities seem to indicate the presence of some blind pigs and alleged disreputable places at Pike Lake, in spite of the efforts that have been made already in the in the form of fines for persons in that locality detected in the act of violating the law. It is claimed that a blind pig and questionable house is being operated at the present time in proximity to the lake by a woman said to have had a great deal of experience along that line of business. This complaint has reached the authorities and it is understood that steps are being taken to make a thorough investigation of the matter and bring the people connected with the place to the attention of the next grand jury. Duluthians who own property in the vicinity of Pike Lake are determined to clear up the moral atmosphere about that resort, they claim, if it becomes necessary to secure indictments at every grand jury session from now until next summer.

Duluth Herald Nov. 17, 1926

Duluth Herald
Nov. 16, 1916
WILL BEGIN CAMPAIGN FOR
ADEQUATE PASSENGER SERVICE
Duluth is making itself an agricultural center - by natural advantage and hard work.
Duluth is making itself an industrial center – by natural advantage and hard work.
Duluth is making itself a distributing center - by natural advantage and hard work.
Duluth must be made a trading center – it has the natural advantages and it is going to make some work.
A trading center is where people come to trade. People come to trade – other facilities being present – where the railroad trains take them. The railroads do not bring people to Duluth – not on every line – not on a good many lines – not on some lines that are shorter and straighter to Duluth than to any other point. In an editorial published Monday evening The Herald briefly outlined this condition.

Why the people who would like to come to Duluth cannot get here will be told in a series of articles prepared for The Herald from information provided by the passenger railway committee of the Commercial club and from any other reliable sources The Herald may find.
Duluth’s growth can be sustained only as this is made a trading center. The time has come to make a campaign as earnest as the agricultural campaign, the freight rate campaign, the industrial campaign - and win as those won.
Both The Herald and the News Tribune will co-operate with the Commercial club committee, but it is Duluth’s fight, not The Herald’s nor the News Tribune’s, nor the Commercial club’s. The Herald’s articles will be brief and will set forth concrete instances of inadequate passenger service in what should be Duluth’s trade territory.

Duluth Herald Nov. 18, 1936

Duluth Herald
Nov. 17, 1926
RADICALS RANGE
MOVE DEFEATED
State Labor Federation
Will Not Organize Miners.
Radical members of the Minnesota Federation of Labor met another setback today when E. G. Hall, president, in a report to the executive council recommended that no efforts be made to organize Iron range miners, as urged by the “reds” in a resolution introduced at the 1926 convention at Hibbing.
The resolution was referred to the executive council by recommendation of the committee of organization and Mr. Hall was asked to study range labor conditions.
The labor head in his report said he inquired at numerous points, including Bovey, Hibbing, Chisholm, Buhl, Virginia, Ely and Tower, and “found little encouragement at this time to inaugurate an organization campaign.”
Spirited Discussion.
Introduced by Delegate Walter Frank, Minneapolis, member of the old Communist bloc, and others, the resolution demanded organization of the miners because “the conditions under which the workers toil in the open pit and underground mines on the Minnesota iron ranges are intolerable.”
A spirited discussion followed and Delegate Tony Bettoni of Hibbing attacked the resolution, saying that the miners had been “robbed twice by organizers representing the I. W. W. and similar organizations and were not in the frame of mind to listen to any appeal for organization.”
President Hall took a hand in the scrap, pointing out “that these same organizations that had robbed the workers in this district” were active in “vilifying the American Federation of Labor and all of its organization had been attempted in this district.”

Duluth Herald Nov. 20, 1956

Duluth Herald
Nov. 18, 1936
BRUNSKILL DIES
ON HUNTING TRIP
Deer Season Blamed
for Five Deaths Since Sunday.
Frank W. Brunskill, former Minneapolis police chief, died of a heart attack while on a hunting trip near International Falls today – the fifth death attributed to the deer hunting season since Sunday.
Yesterday, Charles R. Curtis, St. Paul, died of a heart attack while hunting near Two Harbors. His body was found by a searching party after he had failed to return to an agreed meeting place.
At a Virginia hospital, Ralph Hall, 23, of Plainview, Minn., was being treated for a gunshot wound in his leg. He refused to divulge the identity of a companion who accidentally shot him while the two were hunting in the near-by woods.
Mr. Brunskill, well known among state police officials, was with a party of 10 hunters who had been in the North woods for four days. The group occupied a cabin at a camp near International Falls. Brunskill suffered a heart attack during the night and died at 2 a.m. Two doctors in the party attended him.

He had served the Minneapolis police department for more than 20 years as patrolman, detective, captain of detectives and chief of police. He retired early this year to become manager of a Minneapolis brewing company.
Many arrests for game violations have been made in the state since the opening of the season. The exact number, however, is not available as reports are not filed until the cases are taken to court.

Duluth Herald Nov. 19, 1946

Duluth Herald
Nov. 19, 1946
Paul Robeson to Sing
Before Capacity Crowd
The “standing room only” sign will be up at the Duluth Armory tonight when Paul Robeson, famed bass-baritone, sings his second concert here after `15 years at 8:30 p.m. Miles Music Co., which is handling tickets for the concert, reported a complete sell-out this morning.
Noted as the foremost interpreter of Negro spirituals in the world, Robeson will devote a whole portion of his program to these songs. A number that he was called upon to repeat in his appearances before sell-out audiences in Albert hall in London, will be included.
During his coast-to-coast tours of the United States, the singer has discovered the music his European audiences call for is by and large the same music with which he is identified by American listeners. An encore always demanded of Robeson is “ol’ Man River,” for which he is as well known in Europe as in his native country.

Accompanying the singer will be Lawrence Brown, who had been Robeson’s accompanist since his debut two decades ago. Brown is famous in his own right as a noted arranger of Negro spirituals.

Duluth Herald Nov. 21, 1956

Duluth Herald
Nov. 20, 1956
Rock ’n’ Roll
Program Set
Dave Dudley and the King’s Men will play rock and roll rhythms at showtime during the annual Thanksgiving night ball in Hotel Duluth given by the Duluth Musicians Association.
Also on the show bill are Gustave Jackson and his violin; Jim and Ray, madcap musical comedians; the Starlights, a feminine vocal trio; Don Sandin, comic accordionist; Mickey Levine will be master of ceremonies.
Five bands will play for dancing during the evening. Bill Cover and the Vagabonds, Bob Sugar, Ken Hankey, Famous and the Westernaires, and the Duluth Symphony orchestra – playing waltzes and polkas.

Duluth Herald Nov. 21, 1966.

Duluth Herald
Nov. 21, 1966
Scenic Highway
Urged for Shore
The Minnesota Scenic Area Board has recommended that Highway 61 along the North Shore be established as a scenic highway.
Interstate Highway 35 also was recommended as a scenic highway in a report issued today by the Minnesota Highway Department.
The Scenic Area Board was created by the 1965 legislative session and consists of the director of the Minnesota Historical Society and the commissioners of conservation, business development and highways.
The board was given authority by the Legislature to recommend scenic areas along the Interstate and trunk highway systems provided the areas are outside the corporate limits of cities, villages or boroughs and not within areas zoned commercial or industrial.
After the establishment of scenic highways, the commissioner of highways will issue no new permits for advertising devices along these routes.
After Jan. 1, the Highway Department will proceed as fast as possible to implement action to phase out existing signs.
The Highway Department is awaiting guidelines being prepared by the Secretary of Commerce, under the authority of the Beautification Act of 1965, pertaining to control of advertising devices, regulations and statutes may be necessary in order to take full advantage of federal beautification funds.
Scenic highway orders have been filed in county auditors’ offices on areas approved by the Scenic Area Board.
The scenic highways were recommended because they pass through or near national, state or local parks, historic sites or monuments, recreation areas or other areas worthy of scenic preservation for the benefit of the traveling public.
The scenic designation under the current proposal would apply to Interstate 35 from the Twin Cities to Moose Lake, of which about 51 miles is completed.
Also included would be a short stretch of completed Interstate 35 in the Scanlon area.
Highway 61 would begin as a scenic route at the west Duluth city limits, and continues as such all the way to the Canadian border.