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Duluth Herald July 23, 1888 BREAKS THE RECORD. THE RECORD IN FLOUR MOVEMENT AT DULUTH BROKEN BY LAST WEEK – A NEW FEATURE IN WHEAT. Duluth has for years been proud of her record as a shipping port, and the record has constantly been broken by the steady increase of business. Last week, however, proved a poser, and smashed all previous records to smithereens, especially in the magnitude of flour receipts by rail. During the week there were received here 100,360 barrels of flour, mostly from Minneapolis, and 93,005 barrels of it over the St. Paul & Duluth, an average of 15,000 barrels daily for one road, which may truly be called
Duluth’s flour carrying road. There were shipped 93,973 barrels, nearly all of which was for direct export in through bills to Europe; of this amount 29,236 barrels went to Buffalo, 20,882 to Sandusky to the Baltimore & Ohio, 39,484 to Sarnia to the Grand Trunk, and the rest to Montreal and other ports. In store today 167,988 barrels, or 65,000 more than at this opening of navigation in May. Of wheat there has been shipped during the week 396,000 bushels, leaving a total in store today of 3,794,218 bushels and showing a decrease for the week of 362,737. Of the total in store all but 600,000 bus. Is 1 hard wheat. There are 127,223 bushels corn in store and a small lot of oats. St. Paul and Minneapolis together hold today 5,795,850 bushels. A year ago today, Duluth had 2,453,241 bushels in store. The receipts last week were unusually light, only about 27,000 bus.; this week however, they will be much larger a lot of 300,000 bushels of Minneapolis low grade stuff having been sold in the East for immediate shipment through Duluth. Eighty-five cars of this arrived this week, the first consignment and about 500 cars more will be along in a few days. Shipments
Duluth Herald July 25, 1900 “The park question is still being stongly advocated at West Duluth,” said a West Duluthian yesterday. “The feeling that the city ought to have a park on the St. Louis rover fronmt here has only been intensified by the news that S. E. Kilner, treasurer of the Land and River company of New York, and who represents the Billings estate,. Has been in West Superior for several days negotiating for a transfer of some eighty acres of estate fronting on the St. Louis river to the city of Superior for park purposes. Mr. Kilner has laid the matter before Mayor Parker of that city and stated the conditions attached to the transfer. He left last night for New York to report to the Billings heirs, and it is believed that word will be received by August 1, laying the matter formally before the city council. The matter of a park on the St. Lois river is considered most favorably by the rank and file of Superiorites, the adaptability and beauty of the location being without question the best found for within many miles of that city. “It is believed that the council of Superior will, when the transfer Ad appearing in the July 23, 1888 edition of the Duluth Evening Herald.
from OLF local stocks of high grade grain will be large this week, a very considerable amount having just been sold for immediate export.
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Duluth Herald July 24, 1890 An amusing incident occurred on board the Hunter yesterday afternoon. Col. A. D. Hoyt, who was among the excursionists from St. Cloud is the patentee of a lawn sprinkler and naturally should not be much afraid of water, but when the boat went aground, he immediately imagined that the passengers were to share the fate of the two men who were capsized and he immediately began to make preparations. The colonel is a little inclined towards “embonpoint” and it was some time before he could find a life preserver to fit, but when he secured one he fastened it around his waist, and although there was not a particle of danger he could not be induced to remove the life saving apparatus until the boat landed in the Northern Pacific slip, and he declared that he would never venture on the bay again.
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