Champlin Milling

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

Where we Walk and Ride

Minneapolis prides herself in particular upon the appearance of her streets. The city was laid out upon large and liberal principles. Wide streets are the order everywhere, 80 to 100 feet being a common average. The improvement and maintenance of these broad thoroughfares has involved continual and heavy inroads upon the municipal treasury, but the … Read more

Pumping Station!

The water supply of Minneapolis is obtained from the mighty Mississippi River through an intake pipe reaching the some distance up river from the city limits. Pumps force this water into reservoirs from which it is distributed through the mains and pipes by gravity.

Meeker Island Lock and Damn

Construction on Lock and Dam No. 2  began at the end of the 1890, and was finally completed in 1907. The structure featured a small lock for steamships. People on the fun side of the river called this the Meeker Island Lock and Dam because it was built near the enchanted island named after its … Read more

This is Minneapolis

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

The Cafe Exceptionale

The New Charlie’s Cafe Exceptionale is a superb adaptation of the origina French Provincial architecture charming in 1949 as it was at its height in France between 1710 and 1795. Its rustic simplicity was typical of the homes of prosperous farmers, and later, well-to-do landowners and nobility. The fine contrasts of warm honey toned oak … Read more

Como Water Bikes

Vigorous physically activity is the best way to keep your mind strong and body husky. Out-of-doors rest and recreation opportunities abound in the city of St. Paul’s famous Como Park. Come on out and get some fresh air. Bring your family, grab your friends and find the fun on Como Lake.Water. Twin City residents agree, … Read more

Come to Camden Park

Nearly the youngest park of the entire system, an acquisition of a little more than a year’s standing, an acquisition made against the wish of a large number of people who are bound to be benefited through its creation and existence, boasts today of the finest, most useful recreation building in our entire park system, … Read more

At University and Raymond

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