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Mike and Helen Sharick: Good Lives

The “Ore, Iron and Men” magazine regularly featured stories about employees and the jobs they did within the Oliver Iron Mining Company. Often these stories would also include visiting the ....

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Jerome Christenson: Wood smoke, iron ore and a Psalm

How did the Iron Range get its many lakes? It was something to ponder while paddling on one, beneath a wildfire smoke-blotted sky. ....

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Historical Review


1901
May 25, 1901-J. Howard and Ed Bergen have formed a partnership in Grand Rapids and have entered into the real estate business.
May 25, 1901-Sol Williams, who owns a homestead on the Vermillion, reported to Sheriff Tyndall and gave himself up stating that he had shot and probably killed Jim Morris in Cass County. He claims self-defense.
May 25, 1901-Frank F. Price, Grand Rapids attorney, has taken George H. Spear of Brainerd on as a partner.
 
1911
May 24, 1911-The new settler often makes a mistake by bringing in too much stock, more stock than the farm will provide rough feed for, which proves unprofitable. ....

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1901
May 18, 1901-It appears that within a few months Grand Rapids will have telephone connections with the towns to the east and west.
May 18, 1901-It is predicted that the birth of two or three more fair-sized counties in northern Minnesota will occur within the next four years.
May 18, 1901-John T. Jones of Pittsburgh, Pa., arrived in the area. He and associates have taken lease of the old, long-abandoned Buckeye Mine situated about 12 miles northeast of Grand Rapids.
 
1911
May 17, 1911-The state land sale conducted from the courthouse steps was one of the best that has ever been conducted in the county, and the average price per acre paid was the highest ever received at a sale of Minnesota state lands. A total of 3,000 acres were disposed of for an average price of $12 per acre. ....

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