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Duluth Board of Trade Cornerstone and Historic Prominence
The piece recounts the laying of the cornerstone for Duluth’s Board of Trade Building with a $350,000 contract, notes Duluth’s growth from 71 white inhabitants in 1860 to 8,131 in 1870, and mentions historic speeches by J. Proctor Knott calling Duluth the Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas. It also covers the 1881 establishment of the board, a 1586 building fire, and later real estate and trade statistics.
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Iite
Proctor Knott
Board of Trade
Jean Att Lath
Suoa
Lake Superior
New World
Dao Lath
du Luth
Northern Pacific
Duluth
Bert
J. Proctor Knott
Kentucky
House of Representatives
Washington
Knott
P. Conan
Conan
Drinth Board of Trade
United States
Duluth Board of Trade
St. Lawrence
Breat Lakes
Welland Canal