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A FARMER OWNED CO-OPERATIVE FARM SUPPLY Wholesale, serving 200,000 farm families through local co-operative companies, located in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Northern Wyoming. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE AT YOUR LOCAL CO-OPERATIVE A FARMER-OWNED, wholesale farm supply cooperative serving local cooperatives in five Northwest states. The most modern oil blending plant in the … Read more
In 1954, Matt Bristol took over a dark, 24-by-55-foot 3.2 joint he bought from a guy named Nibs Martin. The bar could hold 78 thirsty patrons. A couple month’s after he changed the name of the place to Matt’s, a cook was flipping hamburgers on a two-foot-wide grill at the end of the bar and … Read more
Steel Construction Gives You Extra Value in the new Toro Mowers! The trend of engineering and design in practically all metal products today is towards steel construction and the elimination of frequent breakdowns. That is why we chose it for our new line of lawn equipment. Steel is much stronger and much lighter than cast … Read more
GUARD AGAINST INFLUENZA Think of the deadly germs tracked daily onto Your Rugs! Every Rug going through our Washing and Drying Process is thoroughly sterilized. You can not afford to take chance when the cost is so small. We have the most Modern Rug Cleaning Plant in the Cities. NO ACIDS Only Pure Soap and … Read more
Brewing and malting are amongst the great industries of St. Paul. The three indigenous and five agency establishments in this business have an invested capital of $5,000,000, and employ several thousand men. The Theo. Hamm Brewing Co., Minnehaha and Greenbrier, operates the largest plant. Following are a few interesting statistics relative to the business and … Read more
STATE OF MINNESOTA Public Examiner St. Paul, Minn. Dec 2, 1905 St. Anthony Falls Bank Minneapolis Minn. Gentlemen: I am in receipt of the examiner’s report of the recent examination of your bank and am pleased to note its in excellent condition upon which fact I desire to extend to you my congratulations. Yours Truly, … Read more
The Greatest Department Store in Minneapolis Has Been a Dominant Factor in the Development of the Northwest. Just as some men are born leaders in the world of politics, on the battlefield, and in the work of empire building, just so are men born to lead in the business world. It was this inherited genius … Read more
Few institutions have accomplished greater results for individual citizens as well as the city and state as a whole, than the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company of Minneapolis—The Home Company. Backed by men whose names are written large in the history of Minneapolis, the Northwestern National has achieved a national reputation as one of the … Read more
Completed in 1964, the ReliaStar Building, formally known as the Northwestern National Life Building, designed by Minoru Yamasaki and Associates, opened at the end of Nicollet Avenue in 1965. The low-rise structure’s 85 foot portico contains a colonnade of 21 quartz-faced concrete columns in the east-west direction and 9 columns in the north-south direction on … Read more