A Transportation Panorama

Indian Mounds park, St. Paul, offers one of the best transportation panoramas going.It overlooks the St. Paul municipal barge terminal, Holman municipal airport, acres of rail-road trackage. heavily traveled highways and the Mississippi river, on Sundays usually bearing speed boats.You can find it from downtown St. Paul by driving northeastward uphill across the Kellogg boulevard … Read more

A Wilder Charity Building

This four-story stone and brick building faces Rice park on Washington street at Fifth avenue. the corner is the Federal building, across the street is the beautiful building of the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Next to that is the facade of the Young Woman’s Christian Association. In the rear of the Charity … Read more

Mounds Park Sanitarium

At Earl and Thorn streets, adjacent to Indian Mounds Park- Take Maria Ave. car to end of line. A modern, fire proof, general hospital for the treatment of all non-contagious diseases. Capacity eighty patients. Fully equipped laboratories for the diagnosis of disease. Modern operating and sterilizing rooms and equipment. Special facilities for the care and … Read more

The Man in the Water

Watson Guile, 306 West Forty-fifth street, was swimming in Lake Calhoun. near Minneapolis last summer and noticed a husband and wife. who had a baby with them. The couple was taking pictures on the shore. When Guile left the water, the family had gone. However, the wife had left behind a plastic bag that contained … Read more

The Park Nurseries

PLANTING for the present — means the using of large trees and shrubs, those that are developed and effective from the start. When establishing The Park Nurseries we had in mind the fact that when the modern business man makes up his mind he wants a thing — he wants it quick, and with this … Read more

College of Agriculture

College of Agriculture — Take Como-Harriet or Como-Hopkins car line, get off at Carter Ave. and walk about one-half mile northeast. One of the departments of the State University. This department has a separate campus at St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, covering, with the grounds of the state experimental station, about 413 acres, on which … Read more

State Office Building

Gov. Floyd B. Olson and Mayor Gerhard Bundlie of St. Paul, will officiate at the corner stone laying ceremony for the new state office building, Park and Aurora avenues, St. Paul, at 11 am. Wednesday. A history of the building, copies of current architects’ drawings of the building, minutes of the building commission and a … Read more