History of Minneapolis: Gateway to the Northwest, Volume 1Marion Daniel Shutter S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1923 - Minneapolis (Minn.) |
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Page 120
... increased . Bridges - One of the first improvements needed was a bridge across the Mississippi . When the first settlements were made about the Falls of St. Anthony , the only way of crossing the river with teams was by means of the ...
... increased . Bridges - One of the first improvements needed was a bridge across the Mississippi . When the first settlements were made about the Falls of St. Anthony , the only way of crossing the river with teams was by means of the ...
Page 123
... increased to 225 , and in 1922 the city had 470 miles of sewer , connecting with all the principal residence and business streets . FIRE DEPARTMENT The first effort to provide protection in case GATEWAY TO THE NORTHWEST 123.
... increased to 225 , and in 1922 the city had 470 miles of sewer , connecting with all the principal residence and business streets . FIRE DEPARTMENT The first effort to provide protection in case GATEWAY TO THE NORTHWEST 123.
Page 129
... increased to sixty - two men and the salaries were also increased . The chief was then paid $ 1,800 a year ; captain of detectives , $ 1,500 ; assistant , $ 1,300 ; sergeants , $ 1,000 ; patrolmen , $ 828 for the first year and $ 900 ...
... increased to sixty - two men and the salaries were also increased . The chief was then paid $ 1,800 a year ; captain of detectives , $ 1,500 ; assistant , $ 1,300 ; sergeants , $ 1,000 ; patrolmen , $ 828 for the first year and $ 900 ...
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... increased each season after 1853 , until the Civil war terminated the custom . THE WINSLOW HOUSE In 1856 , the hotels and boarding houses in St. Anthony and Minne- apolis were thronged with pleasure seekers from the South and East ...
... increased each season after 1853 , until the Civil war terminated the custom . THE WINSLOW HOUSE In 1856 , the hotels and boarding houses in St. Anthony and Minne- apolis were thronged with pleasure seekers from the South and East ...
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... increased , almost every house having one in its yard . BIRTH OF PUBLIC SYSTEM ' When the first fire company was organized in St. Anthony , in Decem- ber , 1855 , a platform was built at the brink of the east channel of the river ...
... increased , almost every house having one in its yard . BIRTH OF PUBLIC SYSTEM ' When the first fire company was organized in St. Anthony , in Decem- ber , 1855 , a platform was built at the brink of the east channel of the river ...
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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...