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Outhouse archeologist digs up more than dirt BY DEBRA NEUTKENS STAFF WRITER
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Mark Youngblood uses tools like shovels and trowels to excavate outhouse pits. He starts with a slender, 5.5-foot-long steel probe to feel for glass or soil that is different from the surrounding area and maps out the spot from there. His best find was a St. Paul Bottling Works soda bottle. (above)
You could call Mark Youngblood a bottle diviner of sorts. Instead of divining for water, he probes for glassware and other artifacts. And he does it around turn-of-the-century privy sites. Seems the outhouse hole was a favorite place to dispose of household trash back in the day. Youngblood collects, swaps and sells bottles and other relics he’s uncovered in digs near homes built pre-1910. He figures he’s excavated about 1,800 pits around Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, a hobby that started decades ago when he discovered an old dump in Dellwood. Glass bottles embossed with the names of local brewing companies are a favorite find. The more local the company, the more valuable the object. The amateur archeologist unearthed several interesting specimens recently at a dig near an old house under renovation on Murray Avenue. Included among the booty were intact bottles from Schmidt, Hamm’s and Yoerg’s breweries in St. Paul and a bottle embossed with “Kickapoo Sagwa Stomach Liver and Kidney Renovator.” A Google search indicates Kickapoo Indian Medicine (as etched on one side of the bottle) was registered in the U.S. Patent Office in July 1882. The indications, or uses, for the medicinal product as provided on its packaging: “Cures Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Sour Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Heartburn, Depression, Neuralgia, Female Disorders, Liver Complaint, Constipation, Indigestions, Rheumatism, Impure Blood, Jaundice, Bilious Attacks, Fever and Ague, and all Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and the Blood.” SEE OUTHOUSE ARCHEOLOGIST, PAGE 13
‘No parking’ signs ordered for restaurant dock WHITE BEAR LAKE — To solve the problem of unhappy boaters at one marina, a neighboring marina has been told to place ‘No parking’ signs on its southernmost dock. Public cleats must also be removed on the south side of the dock to dissuade visitors from mooring. Those conditions were placed on Tally’s Dockside owners after a boat owner renting a slip from Docks of White Bear next door complained to the White Bear Lake Conservation District (WBLCD) board (“Tight quarters make for unhappy boaters in Commercial Bay,” July 27). He couldn’t get his pontoon out on music nights at Tally’s and felt ignored when people double-parked at the dock were asked to move. WBLCD Director Mark Ganz, chair of the lake utilization committee, said a letter was drafted with help from
district counsel Alan Kantrud and mailed to Tally’s owners Aug. 16. The letter asked the owners, Keith and Jan Dehnert, to remove cleats on the south side of the dock and to post signage. The letter also requested their main dock be straightened, per the original diagram approved by the board and “not be banana shaped,” Ganz added. The Mahtomedi director informed the board at its Aug. 16 meeting he had talked to Rick Juba, assistant city manager, about the dock, which sits in front of public right of way. The authorized dock usage area (ADUA) at the end of Whitaker Street is leased to Tally’s by the city. He was told the dock can be used for servicing boats only in the ADUA and not for parking. “That dock is used for nothing but parking,” Ganz said. “We have photos
of boaters parking four deep. It is causing an issue.” Board members were also alerted to complaints involving jet skis rented to the public by a company already offering pontoon and runabout rentals at Matoska Park. “It’s a VRBO (vacation rental by owner) for boats, and they’re getting popular,” Ganz said. He pointed out that the rental company did not obtain approval for jet skis. He promised a phone call to the owners telling them to ‘cease and desist’ until WBLCD receives proof of liability insurance. Another local company called SilverFinn Kayaking rents kayaks on White Bear, Square Lake and Silver Lake. The company drops off and picks up the kayaks, which can be rented in threeand five-hour increments.
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The White Bear Lake Conservation District wants ‘no parking’ signs posted at Tally’s southernmost dock to avoid space conflicts with the neighboring marina.
“We’ve never had to deal with this (type of business) before,” Ganz said. “We’re not sure how to regulate it, but this is coming.” Debra Neutkens
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