Saturday, October 24, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 24

October 24, 1902 – “The members of the trade union at the [Northwest] Thresher Company [in Stillwater, Minn.] strike because of non-union men working on a construction job at the company. Brick and stone laborers walk out, but supervisor George Wilson quickly replaces them with non-union men.”

http://projects.wchsmn.org/reference/events/mill-workers-strike/





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Friday, October 23, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 23

October 23, 1907 – The Duluth Herald reports that “many prominent citizens [of Eveleth, Minn.] have urged the train committee of the Business Men’s association to consider the matter of a union depot for Eveleth, in addition to better train service.


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The citizens’ grievances run strongest against the Duluth, Missabe & Northern railway, for the passengers from three coaches are let off the train in the mud, nearer the Spruce-Adams stockpile than they are to the depot.


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In the station, thirty to forty men and women are often crowded together in a little room about 25X15, without a lavatory or toilet rooms. The little room is not partitioned off for men and women, so that the language used is too often unbearable for the women.

The company has promised to better the conditions, but has done nothing as yet.

Duluth Herald; “Want Union Deport, Eveleth Business Men May Also Agitate That Subject”; October 23, 1907; p. 10.

1Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Oct. 23, 2015, as long as acknowledgement included.
2https://www.odmp.org/agency/4881-duluth-missabe-and-northern-railroad-police-department-railroad-police
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 22

October 22, 1915 – Seventy bell boys of the Minneapolis hotels played hosts to the public tonight at their fourth annual ball at the Arcadia Dancing Pavilion, opposite the court house. Taxis lined the street in front of the hall until long after 1 a.m.

“A big crowd of boxing fans and friends were in attendance,” said Ted Fallon of the Dyckman Hotel staff, president of the bellman’s association.

Thirty-one dances were played by the orchestra. The shift between the night and day forces of bell hops came at 11 p.m., the taxis rushing one squad back to the hotels, while the other slipped into their “civilian” clothes and were hurried in the cars to the dancing palace.


The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Fourth Annual Ball by Bellboys, Success. ‘Patronage Liberal,’ President of Association Reports, When Affair Ends.”; Oct. 23, 1915; p. 1.




The Arcadia Dance Pavilion, 1918
http://www.jeanneandersen.net/venues.html

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 21

October 21, 1913 – When William E. Carruthers was taken back to the state penitentiary this afternoon because he had violated his conditional pardon, it was a question of who was more disappointed, Warden Wolfer, who brought him back, or the man himself.

Carruthers was released last July from a five-year sentence for forgery, begun in March 1911, on the recommendation of Warden Wolfer, and continued his work in the auditing department of the farm machinery section at the penitentiary at a salary of $100 a month.

His pardon was to remain intact as long as he kept away from drink.



 
Nine days ago he violated this clause in his pardon. Carruthers asked for a day off, and it was granted to him. That was the last seen of him until he was arrested Sunday at his mother’s home in Minneapolis. According to the warden, Carruthers started drinking the day he got off, and in some way got to Minneapolis.

He is the second man in the 22 years Warden Wolfer has been at the penitentiary who, having been released on a conditional pardon on the warden’s recommendation, has violated it and been brought back to prison.

“I am very much disappointed,” said Warden Wolfer. “I rarely make a mistake in my judgment of a man, and Carruthers looked the man who wanted to make good, if ever a man did.

“But drink is to blame. The man would never do the things he has done unless under the influence of liquor. It is a disease with him. I don’t know which of us was the more disappointed when I took him back [today], Carruthers was broken hearted about it, and he felt more sorry because he had disappointed me than at his going back to prison.”


The Minneapolis Morning Tribune
; “Warden and Prisoner Both Disappointed. One Because Ward Failed to Make Good; Other Because He Lost. William E. Carruthers, Given Chance of Freedom, Sent Back After Drinking. Mr. Wolfer Took Personal Interest in Prisoner; Latter an Able Accountant.”; October 22, 1913; p. 1.


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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 20

October 20, 1911 – After 13 years of separation, Mrs. Ida Stow of Voltaire, N. D., today said she has found her husband in Hibbing, Minn. The woman is positive the man is her husband, although according to eye witnesses of the meeting, the man neither denied nor affirmed the relationship, acting rather like a statue while Mrs. Stow accused him of being her missing husband and the father of her four children.

Her oldest son is now 32-years-old and living in Voltaire. He was 18-years-old when his father left to go visit relatives in Superior, Wis., and never came back. Mrs. Stow said she is positive her son can also identify the man as his father.

The man accused of being Silas R. Stow, once a N. D. farmer, is now employed at the office of the Oliver Mining Company and is known as R. S. Wots.

“Spell R. S. Wots backwards and it gives you S. R. Stow,” Mrs. Stow pointed out.

Wots is regarded by the mining company as a first class employee.

Mrs. Stow arrived in Hibbing a few days ago accompanied by a man who had helped her locate the supposed Stow. She went to the office of the mining company and asked to see Wots. When he saw his visitor, according to Mrs. Stow, he turned pale and had nothing to say.

“Won’t you shake hands with me, husband?” Mrs. Stow asked Wots. He gave her a limp hand, saying, according to her, “I don’t know you.”

She says, however, that she recognized him at once. After a few more questions the woman left the office. She said today that she did not intend to bring action against Wots, as she “was through with him forever.”

“I only want my oldest son to see him, and then I don’t intend to ever let him see my face again,” she declared.

Mrs. Stow, after meeting with the man she says is her husband, told of the trials and tribulations she has suffered since his departure. Left with four children on a rented farm near Absaraka, N. D., she supported herself and family for four years by taking in sewing, as she was almost immediately forced to leave the farm.


During the 13 years her husband had abandoned his family, Mrs. Stow says she kept her four children, three boys and a girl, in school. She now owns three houses in Voltaire, renting each.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Asserts She Found Her Husband After 13 Years. Voltaire, N. D. Woman Meets Man Whose Name Reversed Is That of Spouse. Alleged Mate in Hibbing Greets Her Coolly—Says He Does Not Know Her.”; October 21, 1911; p. 1.




Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Feb. 7, 2015,
as long as acknowledgement included.

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Monday, October 19, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 19

October 19, 1918 – “According to the Minneapolis Daily News [on this date], Virginia [Minn.] had ‘the biggest sewage purification plant in the world,’ built at a cost of $125,000. It is, without doubt, the largest in the state.”

http://zenithcity.com/zenith-city-history-archives/minnesotas-arrowhead/the-history-of-virginia-minnesota-through-1922/




Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Nov. 12, 2012,
as long as acknowledgement included.
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Sunday, October 18, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 18

October 18, 1929 - Black Friday sends the country deep into depression. To save money on coal, workers burn scrap-leather to stay warm in the [Red Wing Shoe] factory.

http://www.shoestoboot.com/pages.cfm?ID=12




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