Comments on: Dredging up Minnesota’s past

By: Eric James

Eric James — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:06:26 +0000

As a Norsk-o-phile, I’d love to know the coverage of Syttende Mai events and other various Norwegian or Swedish related news. Or even maybe coverage of Snoose Boulevard.

I have an old MHS picture of the Dayton’s building completely dressed up in oversized Norwegian and U.S. flags with hordes of people in the streets during Syttende Mai. You don’t see that anymore.

By: Ben Welter

Ben Welter — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:40:18 +0000

Armina, Carol:

Have you tried searching the Star Tribune’s online archive? You can use it to find any staff-written article published since 1986:

http://www.startribune.com/archives

Searching and article abstracts are free; there’s a charge to download complete articles.

Also, regarding lutefisk, here’s a short item about an amusing court case from 1951:

http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/oldnews/archives/27

By: Carol Kittelson

Carol Kittelson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:33:15 +0000

I had an old newspaper article , I think it was in the Star & Trib on how they made lutefisk in the old days, describing the whole process; soaking over 2 weeks etc. Can’t find it any more. Does anyone have it?

By: Armina Spindler

Armina Spindler — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:07:55 +0000

About ten or fifteen years ago in the Metro/State section of the Star Tribune there was an extensive article about two retired Minnesota engineers who designed a ’smokestack emissions scrubber’ or something along that line. I remember that a few months before the formal testing one of the two had died. One of the men had retired from Honeywell and the other may have been from 3M. What I do recall was that the test was sucessful in reducing emissions to almost zero and that DuPont bought all the rights and the ’scrubber.’ I’ve not seen or found anything on it since. Would you be able to locate the article?

By: Donna Rekucki

Donna Rekucki — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:33:55 +0000

Back in the late 50’s, early sixty’s we lived at 2413 Cedar ave in Mpls and my father would build a full size hockey rink for the whole neighborhood every winter. The fire dept. would flood it and as a contractor(Reco Construction) my dad would put up the lights and side boards. My mom would have a big pot of hot chocolate and there was always ice skates at the back door. There was an article written about this but I don’t know when as I was very young. If you could find this I would greatly appreciate it as my father is going to be 87 in January and I know he would enjoy seeing the article again.

By: Ben Welter

Ben Welter — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:42:04 +0000

Hi, Merle. For photos used courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society, see mnhs.org. For photos credited to the Minneapolis Tribune, Star or Star Tribune, see:

http://www.startribune.com/mcu/projects/s/startribunestore/index.shtml

By: Merle Minda

Merle Minda — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:11:19 +0000

What is the best way to access and get permission to reprint photos from your photo archives?

Thank you.

By: Ben Welter

Ben Welter — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:42:13 +0000

Hi, Lori. Thanks for writing. I posted that item nearly two years ago, but I vaguely remember seeing such a list in the Tribune dated Oct. 14 or 15, 1918. See my introductory note above for tips on tracking down newspaper stories on library microfilm.

By: Lori Foley

Lori Foley — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:27:33 +0000

My daughter is doing a project in school and trying to trace her ancestors. We’ve discovered that her great, great grandmother was killed in the forest fire of 1918 in minnesota. Was there a list of the deceased in the tribune?

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:05:07 +0000

Could you find Minneapolis star, November 16, 1936 about the Augustana Children’s Home, also called Mission Colony. At that time they were celebrating their 40th year.
Affiliation with the Augustana Church in Minneapolis.