Duluth Herald, Oct. 2, 1896.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 1, 1888
GOOD NEWS.
The West End Variety Store
Opens This Morning.
The West End variety store opened this morning for business and trade has been brisk all day. S. Morterud, the proprietor, late of Whitehall, Wis., has struck the nail on the head by opening this variety store, as it is something the people of West Duluth have long been in need of. In newspaper parlance “it fills long felt want.” The store is situated in the Colburtson building, 2101 West Superior street, occupying the entire corner room. Although but a small share of the stock is in, yet one can get some idea of what it is to be and of the vast variety of goods that will occupy shelves and counters. Mr. Morterud comes to Duluth with a fine business reputation  and will undoubtedly succeed in his under taking. Nothing like it ever before seen in West Duluth.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 3, 1906.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 2, 1896
LONG LINE OF THEM.
Drunks and Vags Were
Numerous Today.
There was a large “bouquet” of “drunks” and “vags” in the municipal court this morning. There were ten in the lot that had been culled by the police during the preceding twenty-four hours and they were all of powerful scent.
One individual who gave the name of O’Herran exhibited a somewhat battered visage. He confessed he had been involved in a “mix up.”
“Was the other man arrested too?” inquired the court.
“No, they didn’t arrest him. I was the man who was licked,” said O’Herran, in a tone that indicated that he wondered at the question. Mr. O’Herran had no excuse to offer, either for being drunk or for being licked, and he was given ten days.
Mr. O’Hara was the next one up. He had got full looking for work.
“How did you get that scratch on your nose?” asked the court.
“Why, I was struck with a pair of hooks – I work on the docks, you know – and a fellow swung his hooks around quick and struck my nose,” said Mr. O’Hara.
“Well, how about the bump on your forehead,” said the court.
“That bump,” said Mr. O’Hara, feeling of it and trying to squint up at it.
It was a poser, and Mr. O’Hara rubbed a long while. Finally he rubbed out an idea and allowed it might be a mosquito bite or something. Officer Jansen insinuated that it was somebody’s breadhooks that had struck his nose, but O’Hara was very positive that he had not been fighting. He said he had a job, and on condition he would go and take care of it he was allowed to go. The others had nothing to say and were sent up for ten days.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 10, 1966.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 3, 1906
MULE KNEW A
GOOD THING
Selected the Lonsdale Building
as a Place of Refuge.
The spectacle of a mule being led by a policeman out of the hallway of the Lonsdale building, at the corner of Superior street and Third avenue west, his morning, caused many of the people who were passing at the time to pause in wonderment and make inquiry as to whether the owners of the building were contemplating the changing of the handsome office structure into a stable.

Probably the people on the outside were not nearly as much surprised as the persons who were occupying the offices inside were when the mule made his way through the front entrance and clattered down the hall, until stopped at the doors of W. M. Prindle Co. and W. A. Eaton.
After the mule was located, another problem arose of getting it out without taking it into one of the offices, or backing it the whole length of the hallway, but the mule solved the question himself by simply doubling up like a knife and reversing ends, as easily as though it were half the size it really is.

The animal ran away from the Board of Trade livery barn, on First street, and happening to see the open door in the Lonsdale building as it came down the hill, it sought refuge from its pursuers.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 8, 1956.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 4, 1916
RUNS AMUCK;
STABS FOUR
Einar Rand, Armed With Knife,
Charges Up First Avenue.
Arrested Before He Accomplishes
Aim of ‘Killing Everybody.’
Three men with flesh wounds in their arms, legs and faces, a fourth in St. Luke’s hospital with a deep gash in his side and close under his heart, and a fifth with a head wound, waiting in a cell at police headquarters where he is charged with assault in the second degree, are the results of a wholesale stabbing expedition near the railroad tracks on South First avenue east shortly after 6 o’clock last evening.

Einar Rand, 36, a laborer, is the man who awaits as examination in a charge of assault, though he vigorously denies that he is responsible for the trouble. The other four men who were the victims of the knife, however, all appear to agree that their alleged assailant “started everything.”
Shortly after 6 o’clock last evening police headquarters received a “hurry up” call from Patrolman Link and J. W. Johnson on South First avenue east.
Officers Link and Johnson had overpowered Rand, who, witnesses declared, had charged up the middle of the street, brandishing a knife and shouting that he was going to “kill everybody.” One of them said that Rand “liked to see blood” and that he had just enough “booze” to arouse his bloodthirsty passion.

Rand was slightly intoxicated, but not enough, however, to unbalance him physically. He asserted that the fight began over an argument concerning the I.W.W. He was booked at police headquarters last night on a charge of assault in the second degree and will be given an examination, probably, in municipal court this afternoon.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 6, 1936.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 5, 1926
BIG BULL MOOSE
GIVES FLOODWOOD
EARLY INSPECTION
The early risers in this town had the rare treat of seeing a giant bull moose walking into the village, and had not some dogs bothered it, it no doubt would have kept on its course straight through town.
The huge animal was first observed coming across the Savana bridge, which is on the Prairie Lake road, and it had come as far as the county tool house when it was forced to turn back. A number of people living on the street watched the forest giant parade by their front steps.
Moose, when scared out of their usual haunts, will travel for miles in one direction and will swerve from their course only when absolutely compelled to do so. This was probably the case with this animal, and it is believed it swam the river near here and kept on its way.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 6, 1936
Duluth Native
Tops Beauties
Ramona Sondergard Takes ‘
Miss Northwest’ Title in Seaside, Ore.
The Pacific Northwest has turned to a native Duluth girl for its winner of the annual “Miss Northwest” contest, a test in which pulchritude, personality and talent were the three qualities judged.
At the beauty festival, held recently in Seaside, Ore., Ramona Sodergard, who left Duluth 12 years ago, was chosen the winner from among “personality” girls sent to the festivals by dozens of Northwest cities.
Miss Sodergard won after an all-day parade of personality, beauty and talent. In the afternoon the contestants paraded on the beach, and in the evening displayed their talents in a program presided over by Kenny Allen, well-known Portland orchestra leader.
Adjudged the winner, the former Duluth girl was given the first award of $100. A friend, Mary Ventrella, also of Portland, won second prize.
Miss Sodergard, 18, is the daughter of Mrs. Hjalmar Sodergard, Portland, and the niece of Mrs. Arthur W. Ahlquist, 2316 West Twelfth street, Duluth.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 6, 1936.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 7, 1946
CITY GETS
PLANS FOR
CENTER
A letter from the Duluth Junior Chamber of Commerce, read at this morning’s city council meeting, recommended a large number of improvements to the Fond du Lac winter sports center to attract tourists to the city during the winter months.
Singed by R. F. Goughnour, sub-chairman, JCC tourist development committee, the letter said arrangements are being made with railroads to operate ski trains to Duluth this winter. Immediate action was asked on the recommendations so that the work might be completed for the coming season.
Chief among the improvements asked was the construction of a ski-tow in the area. The letter said that, if the city could not finance such a project, a long-term lease could be given to some organization willing to undertake the work.
Goughnour pointed out extensive use of the area not only would increase the city’s revenue from the center, but would result in a substantial increase of tourist travel to Duluth during the winter months.
Mayor George W. Johnson ordered the requests referred to the finance commissioner for further study at the budget sessions now in progress.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 28 1956.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 8, 1956
It’s How You
Prepare It
That Counts
This being presidential election time, there’s lots of talk about a chicken in every pot. But here’s a new twist.
It’s not how many chickens you have in the pot. The important things is what you do with the chicken after you have it on the fire.
And that’s where the third annual Cook Book edition comes in. The big edition will be published with the Sunday Duluth News-Tribune Oct. 21. In it will be a number of mouth-watering ways to prepare chicken.
No matter how you vote in the presidential campaign, you’ll vote for the chicken too, if it’s prepared with one of the tempting recipes you’ll find in the Cook Book edition. More than 7,000 recipes in all poured in and judges are now culling out the best for you.
Because of the interest in the special edition, the newspapers are making extra copies available.
Just send 20 cents for your extra copy to the Duluth Herald and News-Tribune. The newspapers will mail your extra copy to your home or to a friend anywhere in the United States.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 10, 1966.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 10, 1966
National PTA Head Urges
U.S. Attack on Lawlessness
No democracy can survive on lawlessness, the president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers said in Duluth this morning.
Mrs. Jenelle Moorhead, Eugene, Ore., who is here for the three-day 44th annual convention of the Minnesota Congress of Parents and Teachers which opened today in the Arena Auditorium, declared that violence and lawlessness are among the chief threats to the United States today.
“It’s high time that people of this country bear down upon these influences,” she said during a breakfast interview in the Holiday Inn, headquarters for convention officials.
Too many citizens today are enjoying the good life and are not carrying their citizen responsibility, Mrs. Moorhead continued. “They are fleeing from the core of the city because they don’t want to see the ghettos. They want all the privileges of democracy without accepting any part of its troubles.”

Emphasizing the urgency for quality of education, housing and job opportunities, Mrs. Moorhead added, “But this is no time to place the blame on any one factor or unit of government. There are no simple answers, for the rots of the problem are deep.”
The true solution, she said, must come from the homes with all adults assuming an attitude of respect for the law. “A democracy is only as good as the people demand.”
Any PTA which does not face the critical issues of the nation is failing in its fundamental responsibility, Mrs. Moorhead declared. Sometimes, she added, a PTA unit sees itself only as a small group “attached to help the school” but these units must see themselves as opinion makers instead.
Asked if the fact that so many mothers today are employed outside their homes is responsible for delinquency among children, Mrs. Moorhead replied, “Absolutely not. It is the quality, not the quantity of relationship between a mother and child that is important.”
The first general session of the convention, which has brought almost 1,500 delegates to the city, ill be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the Arena’s Exhibit Hall.