Over on 15th Avenue Then and Now

Some builders are beginning to recognize that beauty in the small home means good proportion, good design, and a certain simplicity that is the direct outgrowth of a well worked- out plan. Making a thing beautiful is not necessarily adding ornament, but rather, it is a simplifying process. The trained architect is not an inefficient, … Read more

That Twine Binder

The Minneapolis Harvester Binder HAS ESTABLISHED ITS SUPERIORITY For close cutting, to secure lodged and short grain. For absolute certainty in binding, using the least twine, and binding tightest bundles. For perfect separation of bundles, uniform in size, allowing better shocking and stacking. For a Reel easily adjusted. while in motion, to all positions required, … Read more

Pillsbury’s Best

A Saving of One-Fifth Flour. Pillsbury’s Best Flour is the cheapest flour also with which to make Pies and Cakes. Pastry recipes usually are made for flour containing much less gluten than does Pillsbury’s Best Flour. In following recipes, except such as are made especially for Pillsbury’s Best Flour, use one-fifth less flour than such … Read more

At the Merry Mar-Key

Enjoy a delightful evening of fun, entertainment, and dancing in the relaxing living-room atmosphere of the Mar-Key Club. Select dinner menu served until 10 p.m. Carol Martin trio for your listening and dancing pleasure from 8:30 Monday thru Friday. Noon businessmen’s lunch served by Mar-Key Monday thru Friday. Bikini Girls, 11:30-2:00. Meet top sports personalities … Read more

See you on Summit

Regarded as one of the most beautiful residence streets in the United States. Running along a great part of the edge of a plateau overlooking the Mississippi river, it possesses many natural charms. The avenue is 5.5 miles in length, extending from near the center of the business district west to the Mississippi. For a … Read more

Chateau de Paris

Welcome to the Chateau de Paris—the “Castle” of Paris! Look around you! Everything you see has its memories of “Gay Paree”. The Chandelier in the foyer graced the salon of a fine old Chateau for centuries. And the flag bedecked shield above the door is the coat of arms of the City, of Paris portraying, … Read more

Meeting in Merriam Park

Merriam Park— The largest suburb in the city limits. Reached by the St. Paul-Minneapolis, the Selby- Lake and Merriam Park car lines and the Milwaukee railroad. The park has a very good private hospital (Dr. Cobb’s), some churches of different denominations, a bank and branch post office. It is a very desirable residence district, within … Read more

The House by the Side of the Road

Let me live in a house by the side of the road. Where the race of men go by, The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I. I would not sit in the scorner’s seat Or hurl the cynic’s ban. Let me live in a … Read more

Seven Seas

In 1923 the Minneapolis Park Board voted to purchase a prime piece of real estate for this little park on Lowry Hill. The scheme had been in the works for some time. A year earlier, Landscape architect  Phelps Wyman drew up a plan that included a pergola and a man-made cascade running  through a series … Read more