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Winona's Industrial Push and Building Up Town
A lengthy 1882 feature extols Winona Minnesota as Gate City of the region and flags its rapid industrial growth. It highlights Williams’s patent cylinder packing expander for steam engines, wagon and carriage works, lumber mills, flouring, and farming implement industries. It notes rail and river access, three major rail lines, and calls for tanneries and foundries, boiler works, machine shops, and a robust Building and Loan association to fuel expansion while naming local leaders and bankers backing a thriving, investment-ready city.
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Winondas Machinery Company
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Phelps
Board of Trade
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Dakota
Missouri River
Black Hill
Mississippi River
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Narth
Milwaukee
St.Paul
Green Bay
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Hax-Algo
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Sone
Copsa
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Obi Facture
Texas
Pacific
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Mark Willson
Merchant’s Bank
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Carridge
Pital
C. Hy Porter
National Bank
Cettine
Spria
L. R. Brooks
Winona Mi i Company
Kenney
Drinck
Northwestern
Brooks
Laird
Norton &Olsme
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Hue
Porter
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First National Bank
C.B. “Gould
Wagon ‘Works
Building and Loan’ Association
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Winona Building and Loan‘association
Savings and’ Loan’ Association
O. B. Gould
CA. Morey
C ‘Brown
A. Ay
Snowy
Rabingon
G. Smith
Maybury
Frost
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B. Basford
A. H. Snow
F. A. Rising
C. A .Woolney
O.B. Gould
Q.A. Morey
Bo Me ‘Gaughey
MB. Webber
Ler Brooks
Pont
Wigley
Pennsylvania
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