Duluth Herald, Oct. 14, 1946.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 8, 1888
MAKE IT SMALL.
The Council to Decide on Next Year’s Taxes Tonight – A Low Rate of Taxation Demanded by the People.
At its meeting this evening the city council will make the amount of the annual tax levy for 1888, to go into taxes due before June, 1889. By law the levy must be made and returned to the county auditor before October 10th. This matter is one of great importance to the people of Duluth. Our total valuation is about $30,000,000, nearly double what it was when the last taxes were levied and the rate of taxation should be proportionally lowered. A decrease of 20 per cent in realty valuation made by the state board at the instance of Assessor Cooley has saved the country $5,000 in state taxes, and the council should make an earnest effort to make every tax, school, fire, general and all as light as possible. The tax apparently shown need not, and certainly should not, be over eighteen mils at the outside and the people of the city look to the council to use its best efforts to keep it down. Nothing is so calculated at low rates of interest and good premiums, the influx of outside capital and the development of manufacturing interests as a low rate of taxation and a large and conservative valuation. The latter we have, the former we want.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 14, 1946.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 9, 1896
HAS ACCEPTED IT.
Preston’s Proposition Taken
by the Curling Club.
At the special meeting of the Duluth Curling and skating club, E. S. Palmer was elected president and John A. Dewey vice president to fill the vacancies caused by resignations. The board of directors was authorized to enter into a contract with the Union Rink company for the use of the curling floor in that company’s rink now being erected at the corner of Third avenue east and First street for $1000 for one year with the privilege of using it four years more at $500 per year. The rink will cost $7000 and having been started already it will be ready for an opening Thanksgiving day. The floor under the skating rink will be deadened so that sound will not anoy the curlers or skaters. The curling floor will be 100 by 150 feet and the skating floor 100 by 140 feet. There will be no posts of obstructions.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 10, 1906.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 10, 1906
SCARCITY
OF BARBERS
Difficult to Get Men to
Work on the Range.
Getting barbers to work on the range is no joke.
Practically every shop on the range is running with unused chairs, or else with one or two green men as substitutes.
The trouble is that there is a scarcity of barbers in the city, and the men refuse to fo to the range to work as long as they can find ready employment in Duluth.
Thereby hangs a tale.
Last week there was an old, broken-down drunkard released from the county jail. He had formerly worked as a barber, and some good friend, hearing of the shortage of tonsorial artists on the range, bought him a ticket and packed him off to Eveleth. The owner of the Evelth shop used him just one day, and after patching up the customers the old fellow had slashed, fired him, bought him a ticket to Duluth, and put him on the train again.

At the same time the proprietor wrote a friend in Duluth, who operates a shop here, to send along another barber. He enclosed a ticket in the letter, and the letter and the old man reached Duluth on the same train.
The old fellow tucked away a couple of drinks, and started out to look for another job. The first shop he struck was the one owned by the friend of the Eveleth barber, and the friend had just finished reading the letter.
The discharged one asked for work, and the friend promptly supplied it. Handing over the ticket sent by the Eveleth proprietor, he packed the discharged one back on the afternoon train, and that evening the disgusted Eveleth man found himself just where he stood before, at the expense of two single fare tickets between Duluth and Eveleth.

The latest reports do not make clear whether the old, broken-down one was discharged a second time or not.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 10, 1906.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 11, 1916
WERE PROBING FOR
SENSATION HERE
Twin City Scandal Seekers
Visit the Zenith City.
Representatives of the Twin City Reporter, a weekly publication which specializes in highly colored sensations, have been in the city prying into the affairs of Duluth’s mysterious Gambler King.
What they found is not known, but may be disclosed in time. It is evident from their visit, however, that echoes of the stories which permeate a certain stream of society in Duluth have reached the Twin Cities.
“Rasty” Wright is now in Superior. He was seen by a Herald representative Saturday in Minneapolis and was quite bitter because he had been prevented from making an “honest living” in Duluth. He intimated that there was a lot of money coming from the harvest fields and that Minneapolis would get this money now instead of Duluth. He had the impression that gambling had ceased in Duluth with his departure. He has since returned to the Head of the Lakes and is now receiving his old friends in Superior.

Meanwhile the Gambler King is “lying low” and trying to convince his friends that he is the victim of persecution by bitter enemies who are out to “get him.”

Duluth Herald
Oct. 12, 1926
DULUTH HELPS
TO CELEBRATE
Caravan of Autos Takes Citizens
to Cloquet Anniversary.
Many Duluth people are helping Cloquet celebrate its eighth birthday today, as it was just eight years ago that Cloquet was wiped out by forest fires, and a new city has been built since.
Under arrangements made by the trade extension of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce, a caravan of autos took many Duluthians to the neighbor city today, where an all-day program commemorates the rise of the new city from the ashes of the past.
Senator Henrik Shipstead is the chief speaker today, and many other leaders in political and civic circles are present. The Chamber of Commerce, through J. R. Stack, chairman of the industrial promotion committee, sent a message of congratulations and greeting to the celebrants.
Visitors from many parts of the state are present.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 11, 1916.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 13, 1936
ASKS ECONOMIC
JUSTICE FOR ALL
Will Save America From Revolt,
Says Judge Hughes.
“Economic justice for everyone and protection of the church are the two things which will save America from the terrible things which are happening elsewhere in the world today,” District Judge Martin Hughes of Hibbing told members of the Duluth council, Knights of Columbus, last night at the Columbus day observance.

The council, observing the 444th anniverasary of the discovery of America, also dedicated its new quarters at 28 North First avenue west.
Judge Hughes was the principal speaker at the joint program, which included a dinner, a business meeting and program. He urged the layman to correct erroneous impressions of the Catholic church and join hands in guaranteeing a better life for their fellowman.

Barbara Hale

Duluth Herald
Oct. 14, 1946
City to Have Movie Premiere
Duluth will be host to a world premiere of a motion picture and to its comely leading lady when Lady Luck and Barbara Hale arrive at the Granada theater simultaneously Thursday, Oct. 24.
With her husband, Bill Williams, Barbara will come to Duluth for the express purpose of unveiling the film in which she plays her first starring role. The trip will be in the shape of a delayed honeymoon for the young couple, who were married last June but had to put off their wedding trip because of the filming of Lady Luck.
Climbing to stardom the hard way, Barbara in the last three years struggled through a Frank Sinatra picture, a few “falcons” and horse operas. And gained a great deal more experience than attention. Recently and suddenly, film critics and RKO Radio studios sat up and “discovered” Miss Hale as a competent young actress. As reward for her consistently fine acting, she was given the costarring part with Robert Young and Frank Morgan in Lucky Lady.

Bill jumped into the Hollywood spotlight through a flair for playing natural easy-going parts. He was the legless marine in Till the End of Time, exchanging the U.S. navy uniform he wore in Deadline at Dawn and the khakis he wore in Those Endearing Young Charms.
Lady Luck is a lively and sparkling romantic comedy about the difficulties that beset a young couple when the beautiful bride, dead set against gambling, discovers her husband throwing the “galloping dominoes” only an hour after the start of their honeymoon. The film’s unveiling will be the first occasion of its kind in Duluth for some time. And the star will make personal appearances on the Granada stage five times a day for four days following the picture’s opening.

Wiring S. J. Blackmore, owner of the theater, to accept his invitation to attend the picture’s premiere, Barbara and Bill said they had never been up this way before. And as an afterthought: “Oh yes, we have been advised to bring our woolies.”
Editor’s note: In the next decade, Barbara Hale went on to play Perry Mason’s devoted secretary Della Street for nine years, and in many reunion episodes after. She returned to the region in 1975 when she co-starred in Bill Rebane’s The Giant Spider Invasion, filmed in the Wausau area.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 14, 1946.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 15, 1956
Army to Aid Sheriff With
Walkie-Talkies For Searches, Rescues
A new aid to search and rescue operations of the St. Louis county sheriff’s office has been made available by the U.S. army reserve in Duluth and probably will be given its first extensive test during the deer hunting season this fall.
Sheriff Sam Owens said the equipment, property of the 409th infantry regiment’s Second battalion, promises to be a “big help” to deputies throughout the county.
The walkie-talkies will be particularly helpful, Owens pointed out, for directing and co-ordinating searches for lost or wanted persons in isolated areas.
Use of the equipment was offered by the Second battalion’s commanding officer, Maj. J. B. Johnson, through Deputy Sheriff Alton F. Frykman, a reserve army captain.
Frykman said the battalion now has four units, used for communications training, and expects to increase the number soon to about a dozen.
Owens said that because of their cost – about $450 each – his budget has not permitted their purchase by his department.

Duluth Herald, Oct. 17, 1966.

Duluth Herald
Oct. 17, 1966
Police Sift
Vandalism
Of Home
Police Chief Edward Bird was going on the theory today that teenagers were responsible for defacing the London Road home of a Negro family.
He said a full investigation is under way to determine who is responsible for painting anti-Negro sentiments in black, two-foot-high letters on the side of the home of Mr. And Mrs. Matthey Carter at 4501 London Road, and on the sidewalk alongside.
Bird said the police investigation is being hampered somewhat by the fact that: “We just don’t have any additional men to put on this job. But we are doing everything we can with the detectives available.”
Vandals painted the white exterior on the 45th Avenue East side of the two-story house with the statements: “Koons Get Out” and “Burn Baby Burn.” “Get Out Nigger” was painted on the sidewalk.
“This looks like the action of teenagers,” Bird said. “We don’t have adults who act like this in Duluth. It is the type of thing youngsters would do.”
The Duluth Chapter of the National Association of Colored People met Sunday afternoon and adopted a resolution urging the City Council and Mayor George D. Johnson “to concentrate on finding the vandals responsible for this outrage.”
Council President Donn Larson, a leader in social legislation, pledged that everything possible will be done to prevent any further action that could lead to racial problems in Duluth. He warned that such vandalism cannot be stopped by council legislation but “must come from the hearts of men.”
“I am appalled by this vandalism,” he said. “It is a sad thing that any Duluthian would feel this way. It is frustrating that neither our educational system not the family unit can stop[ such feelings.
“We in Duluth have believed we are free of racial problems. But apparently some deep-rooted feelings can be found here. We cannot feel secure when we see racial statements such as these painted on the house of a law-abiding family.”
William Maupins, president of the Duluth chapter of the NAACP, said that Sunday night’s vandalism culminated about six weeks of harassment of the Carter family, which consisted of painting defamatory statements on the sidewalk.
The Carters built the home in an otherwise all-white neighborhood, about two and a half years ago. The family had resided peacefully in the neighborhood until a few weeks ago.
Maupins said Carter, an employe on a Great Lakes freighter, is away from home much of the time and his wife and two young children were alone in the house. Mrs. Carter is a teacher of mentally retarded children at Jefferson School.
Maupins said many gains in racial equality have been made in Duluth, but that acts with apparent racial overtones could set back racial relations in Duluth.