History of Minneapolis: Gateway to the Northwest, Volume 1Marion Daniel Shutter S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1923 - Minneapolis (Minn.) |
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... LAKES , PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS SOME WATERY STATISTICS - NAMES OF THE LAKES - MINNEHAHA FALLS- NOKOMIS AND OTHER LAKES ... LAKE AREA ACCOUNT OF STOCK -- IN PARKS AND PARKWAYS - MINNEHAHA PARK AND PARKWAY - POWDER HORN PARK - GLENWOOD PARK ...
... LAKES , PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS SOME WATERY STATISTICS - NAMES OF THE LAKES - MINNEHAHA FALLS- NOKOMIS AND OTHER LAKES ... LAKE AREA ACCOUNT OF STOCK -- IN PARKS AND PARKWAYS - MINNEHAHA PARK AND PARKWAY - POWDER HORN PARK - GLENWOOD PARK ...
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... Lake Agassiz was opened up to discharge the waters of the Red River Valley toward the north . The Mis- sissippi then ... lakes , gradually the action of the rain and winds leveled the surface , the heat of the sun warmed the earth and ...
... Lake Agassiz was opened up to discharge the waters of the Red River Valley toward the north . The Mis- sissippi then ... lakes , gradually the action of the rain and winds leveled the surface , the heat of the sun warmed the earth and ...
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... Lake Itasca and Lake Winnibigashish than in other sections of the state . A few of the mounds range from ten to fifteen feet in height , but most of them are under six feet . The most noteworthy mounds in the vicinity of Minneapolis are ...
... Lake Itasca and Lake Winnibigashish than in other sections of the state . A few of the mounds range from ten to fifteen feet in height , but most of them are under six feet . The most noteworthy mounds in the vicinity of Minneapolis are ...
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... Lake Calhoun . When Mr. Hill visited this locality in the fall of 1867 he found only three which lay in a row close to each other . " They were circular in outline , " says he , between two and three feet high and thirty to forty feet ...
... Lake Calhoun . When Mr. Hill visited this locality in the fall of 1867 he found only three which lay in a row close to each other . " They were circular in outline , " says he , between two and three feet high and thirty to forty feet ...
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... Lake Huron and Lake Superior . James Mooney , of the Bureau of Ethnology , says : " It seems to be well established that some of the Chippewa resided north of Lake Superior from time immemorial . " The tribe is first mentioned in the ...
... Lake Huron and Lake Superior . James Mooney , of the Bureau of Ethnology , says : " It seems to be well established that some of the Chippewa resided north of Lake Superior from time immemorial . " The tribe is first mentioned in the ...
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Page 551 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defence but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Page 546 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 546 - In view of these facts and of these considerations, I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the Government of Spain and the people of Cuba...
Page 35 - Mexico was in latitude 31" 4o', and that we could reach it in three or four days' journey from the Akansea [Arkansas River], and that the Mississippi discharged itself into it, and not to the eastward of the Cape of Florida, nor into the California Sea, we resolved to return home. We considered that the advantage of our travels would be altogether lost to our nation if we fell into the hands of the Spaniards, from whom we could expect no other treatment than death or slavery ; besides, we saw that...
Page 58 - France, make the first cannon which shall be fired in Europe the signal for tearing up any settlement she may have made, and for holding the two continents of America in sequestration for the common purpose of the united British and American nations.
Page 546 - In the opinion of the court the Maine was destroyed by the explosion of a submarine mine, which caused the partial explosion of two or more of her forward magazines. ' ' 8. The court has been unable to obtain evidence fixing the responsibility for the destruction of the Maine upon any person or persons.
Page 59 - ... the property and sovereignty of all Louisiana which had been restored to them have on certain conditions been transferred to the United States by instruments bearing date the 30th of April last. When these shall have received the constitutional sanction of the Senate, they will without delay be communicated to the Representatives also for the exercise of their functions as to those conditions which are within the powers vested by the Constitution in Congress.
Page 58 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 110 - Moines; thence, down, and along the middle of the main channel of the said river Des Moines, to the mouth of the same, where it empties into the Mississippi river; thence, due east, to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river; thence, down, and following the course of the Mississippi river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning.
Page 29 - Traverse; thence up the center of said lake to the southern extremity thereof; thence in a direct line to the head of Big Stone Lake ; thence through its center to its outlet ; thence by a due south line to the north line of the State of Iowa...