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Occident Flour costs a little more than other flours. It is made for those people who care enough about bread to notice the difference in different kinds. The price of OCCIDENT Flour is at all times sufficiently high to permit— —The exclusive use of the choicest selected wheats. —The maintenance of the finest, cleanest, most … Read more
New Donaldson Building Complete In All Details In the new L. S. Donaldson building, Minneapolis will have added to her group of modern business structures one not only entirely creditable to the city—a handsome, substantial and complete store and office building—but one which, in many respects, will have no equal in the Twin Cities. The … Read more
Halsey William Wilson, a student working his way through the University of Minnesota founded The H. W. Wilson Company with his roommate, Henry S. Morris way back in 1898. The company published its first first original reference title, The Cumulative Book Index, that very same year. Wilson’s book selling business served students and educators working … Read more
In 1877, a Swedish immigrant named Peter Benson came to Minneapolis to seek his fortune. In 1891 went into business with Charles Eckstrom manufacturing and importing guitars, violins and other musical instruments. Benson was a skilled luthier, a player, and also a publisher of music. He took out patents on his designs. Benson made most … Read more
EGGLESS CAKE Two cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 cups buttermilk or beaten sour milk, 2 level teaspoons soda, 1 tea- spoon each of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and allspice, 31/2 cups Champlin Best Flour, 2 cups chopped raisins, 1 cup chopped English walnuts. Add nuts and raisins last. Bake slowly. CHAMPLIN MILLING CO. Champlin Best … Read more
AT THE HEADWATERS of the Mississippi, her broad streets and boulevards encircling 22 lakes and161 parks, stands the City of Minneapolis, home of the Aquatennial and summer host to millions of vacationers. But Minneapolis is more than a vacation land. Here are the flour mills that made the city famous. Here more than half of … Read more
TO SHOW FURNITURE LARGE EXHIBITION BUILDING TO BE ERECTED AT MIDWAY. Northwestern furniture and Stove Association Will Construct a Big Structure, Where Retail Merchants of the Country May View Stock Under One Roof. The new Northwestern Stove Exhibition Building is now fully decided on by the promoters of the enterprise involving the erection of a … Read more
When North American Life & Casualty Co.’s new home office building on Lowry hill is dedicated Thursday, it will be a personal tribute to H. P. Skoglund, president of the company. The dedication will mark the culmination of 15 years of effort during which Skoglund saw the company’s premium income climb from $100,000 in 1933 … Read more
HISTORY AND BUSINESS The A. J. Krank Company. with its wholly owned subsidiary. Alfred J. Krank Incorporated. is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of toilet preparations. barber and beauty parlor supplies in the United States. The present Company is the outgrowth of the business which was originally founded in 1883 by the late … Read more