A Transportation Panorama

Indian Mounds park, St. Paul, offers one of the best transportation panoramas going.It overlooks the St. Paul municipal barge terminal, Holman municipal airport, acres of rail-road trackage. heavily traveled highways and the Mississippi river, on Sundays usually bearing speed boats.You can find it from downtown St. Paul by driving northeastward uphill across the Kellogg boulevard … Read more

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

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.

Showboat!

The University Theater operates the SHOW- BOAT on the Mississippi River every summer, during the months Of June, July, and August. Address: Showboat, University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis 14, Minnesota, U. S. A. All seats for all performances reserved—$2.OO. Tickets may be purchased at the Scott Hall Box Office, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455. Phone— 373-2337. Also Daytons … Read more

Town & Country Club

A club organized principally for social purposes. The club house, tennis court and golf links are located At west end of Marshall Avenue, overlooking the Mississippi river. The original Town & Country Club grew out of the clubs and civic organizations that created the city’s annual Winter Carnival. In 1887 the club began  meeting in … Read more

Hi Over the U

“HI” OVER EAST AREA MINNEAPOLIS CAMPUS University Of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota View of the campus with Mississippi River in the foreground. The river is the scene Of many Summer- time campus activities one unique spectacle is the Centennial Showboat which performs to sellout crowds throughout its summer season.

A Superb City

Saint Paul in the heart of the Land of Lakes is the capital city of Minnesota, a city whose history teems with events, institutions, and places memorable in the building of the West. You will be attracted by the beauty of this superb city. The majestic “Seven Hills’ gently sloping back from the rivers become … Read more

The High Bridge

The city treasurer will today pay Strobe! & co., Of Chicago, representing the Keystone company, of Pittsburg, Pa., the sum Of $51,544 on the final estimate, and the sum of $19,400, being the amount of penalties remitted by the city council at its last meeting, for the superstructure Of the Smith avenue bridge, making in … Read more

The Oldest House

THE SIBLEY HOUSE MENDOTA, MINNESOTA Built in 1835 by Henry Sibley The house still stands near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers near Fort Snelling. The library in this historic home was used as the temporary capitol of Minnesota Territory by Governor Alexander Ramsey in 1849. The Sibley House is owned and maintained … Read more