South Minneapolis

Binding My Twine

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THE BINDER WHICH MAKES A SHORT PLEASANT HARVEST, AND THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER OF THE APPLEBYS. It is built under the supervision of Mr. J. F. APPLEBY the patentee, and the greatest care exercised in every detail of its construction. Among its many good points are the following: DOUBLE PACKER TRIP; the only trip striking back … Read more

That Twine Binder

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The Minneapolis Harvester Binder HAS ESTABLISHED ITS SUPERIORITY For close cutting, to secure lodged and short grain. For absolute certainty in binding, using the least twine, and binding tightest bundles. For perfect separation of bundles, uniform in size, allowing better shocking and stacking. For a Reel easily adjusted. while in motion, to all positions required, … Read more

Reason No. 2

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Reason No. 2 – Why Minneapolis Celebrates week of July 2 to 8. Because it has more manufacturing, giving steady employment in proportion to population than other cities, there being over 1,000 manufacturing concerns in 137 lines of industry, with 20,000 skilled laborers on payrolls that aggregate $15,000,000 annually; capital, $80,000,000.

Axel’s Lunch Room

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Axel Anderson opened up Axel’s Lunch Room at 2217 East Lake Street in 1912. The restaurant served railway workers from the nearby Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad yard and Twin City Rapid Transit employees from the Lake Street Station across street. Axel came to America from Sweden in 1888. He got his start in … Read more

Gas Stations: Where have they gone?

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Decades before Holiday Station Stores, Pump and Munch, Super America an British Petroleum came up over the horizon, South Minneapolis was littered with tiny independently owned service stations. Many of these little building are still standing. Some have been repurposed as law offices, flowers shops, permaculture cafes and acupuncture clinics. Their parking lots and driveways … Read more