On This Date in Minnesota History: August 31

August 31, 1910 - A compromise arranged with some difficulty by Minn. Gov. Adolph Eberhart and the management of the state fair will alleviate the necessity of paying two admissions to the state fair grounds to listen to President Taft when he speaks there during the conservation congress.

President William Howard Taft¹

The state fair management, seeing the president as a star attraction, wanted to charge all that traffic would bear, and planned to have the president speak in front of the grandstand, where payment of double admission−one to get into the fair grounds and another to get into the grandstand−would be required to hear him.

Minn. State Fair Grandstand²

Insisting earlier that it was necessary to double charge for admission, state fair management has now decided to make admissions to the grandstand free. 

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer; “Reduce Fee to See Taft; State Fair Management Decides to Make Grandstand Free”; August 31, 1910; p. 1.

¹http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Howard_Taft.jpg

²Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Aug. 31, 2014, as long as acknowledgement included.  

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On This Date in Minnesota History: August 30

August 30, 2005 – “The Minneapolis Central Library was completed on [this date].”¹ “The top of the building features three prodigious green roofs totaling 18,500 square feet that help the library stay cool inside. The roof serves as a huge sponge during the rainy season, when it infiltrates and cleans storm water. The roof also provides natural habitat right in the middle of downtown and reduces the dreaded heat island effect, keeping the local environment from overheating on a mid-summer day. Underfloor displacement cooling technology adds 20% running efficiency, and the entire building is 27% more energy-efficient than code.”<sup>2

1</sup>http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/pview.php?id=232

²http://inhabitat.com/green-roofed-minneapolis-central-library-is-a-civic-lesson-on-eco-design/minneapolis-central-library-3/

Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Aug. 15, 2012, 

as long as acknowledgement included.  

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On This Date in Minnesota History: August 29

August 29, 1985 – The Carlton County Courthouse, Carlton, Minn., was added to the National Register of Historic Places on this date. The courthouse took nearly two years to build and was completed in 1924.¹ “The three-story classic Second Renaissance Revival building is built with cream-colored brick and stone. Clyde W. Kelly designed the building and the Niebuhr Co. of Minneapolis built it. Materials, including furniture and fixtures, cost $259,003, but by the time the bonds were retired in 1943, the cost had increased to $301,350.”<sup>2

1</sup>http://nrhp.mnhs.org/NRDetails.cfm?NPSNum=85001926

²http://www.mncourts.gov/?siteID=0&page=CourtHouseProfile&ID=40008

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Aug. 24, 2013, 

as long as acknowledgement included.

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On This Date in Minnesota History: August 28

August 28, 1906 – The plant of the American Can Company, the Heinz Pickle Company and a small two-story frame flat building, all off Fillmore Ave. E. in St. Paul, were wiped out by flames early today.

The fire started in a storage shed of the Heinz Pickle Company. Andres Shaton, night watchman of the can company, discovered the flames and turned in an alarm at 12:28 a.m. Ten minutes later the flames had gained such headway that Assistant Chief Devlin sent a call for additional apparatus.

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The fire leapt from the storage shed to the main plant, and then to the building of the American Can Company. A high wind fanned the flames and made the efforts of the firemen fruitless.

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At 12:30 a third call was sent for help and at 1:49, when, after an hour of strenuous battling, it appeared that the flames were going to get away from the firemen entirely, a fourth call was made for apparatus.

When this summons was answered there were eight engines, three trucks and two chemicals on the scene.

East of the can company’s buildings there stood a two-story frame flat. Chief Strapp ordered the tenants to move as soon as he saw that it was impossible to save the can company building. The tenants fled with whatever they were able to lay hands to in the way of clothing.

At 2:30 when one of the walls of the can company fell, the intense heat set fire to the flat and in a few minutes it was enveloped in flames. Later the east wall of the can factory fell with the wind and buried the ruins of the flat.
The Minneapolis Journal; $355,000 Loss In A St. Paul Fire. Flames Destroy Two Big Plants and Flats Building Near River Front. Three-Hour Battle for Fire Department. American Can Company and Heinz Pickle August 28, 1906; p. 1.

¹http://www.foodandwine.hu/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/heinz-57-300x300.jpg

²http://gulfofgeorgiacannery.com/collections/25-years-25-objects#american

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On This Date in Minnesota History: August 27

August 27, 1920 – (Women’s Equality Day) “Notice of the final ratification was received by the Secretary of State in Washington at 4:00 a.m., and the Nineteenth Amendment was proclaimed part of the Constitution. Up to that time, no other amendment had taken so long to secure. Minnesota can claim the first women voters in the nation as a stalwart group of women in South St. Paul organized a local referendum in the wee hours of [this] morning.”

http://www.lwvduluth.org/important-dates-in-league-history.html     

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/votes-women/file.html

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On This Date in Minnesota History: August 26

August 26, 1980 – Listed simply as “Finnish Sauna,” this former public bathhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on this date. It was built in 1912 “to serve Finnish immigrant miners and their families” in Virginia, Minn.

http://nrhp.mnhs.org/NRDetails.cfm?NPSNum=80004360

Finnish Sauna in Virginia, Minn.

Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Sept. 14, 2012, 

as long as acknowledgement included.  

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On This Date in Minnesota History: August 25

August 25, 1965 - Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham, “an American professional baseball player who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905,” died on this date in Chisholm, Minn. “His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley as older and younger incarnations of Graham.”   2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_Graham

Moonlight Graham

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/grahamo01.shtml

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If you are interested in finding out more about your family history in Minnesota, I specialize in researching  genealogical and historical records in Minn. and western Wis., including: census records,  birth records,  death certificates, obits, grave site photos, ship passenger lists, marriage records and declarations of intent/naturalization records.  I will visit locations to research local history and county records, as well as take photos. Quick turnaround on MNHS records. Both short searches and family history reports available.

                                                         

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