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Peterson Truck Takes Icy Bath in Lake Storm Lake Ice Harvest and Companies
The article recounts Storm Lake ice harvesting from early firms Peterson Ice Company founded by John Peterson and Hagedahl Ice Company run by Gus Hagedahl. It describes cutting methods using six foot saws, pike poles, horse teams, and chutes, with ice cakes weighing about two hundred pounds laid in double-wall sawdust covered ice houses. The shift to motorized harvesting in the late 1920s reduced labor and time.
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