A Letter to the Editor at the Duluth News-Tribune on November 11, 1901:

I would respectively [sic] call the attention of the chief of police to an example of “Hoodlumism” on a street car in your city as I have never witnessed anywhere.

Surely the “kids” are under the surveillance of the police authorities, if the bums cannot be controlled.

Business relative to a burned building called me to Duluth Heights. When I returned to the city, just getting dark, half a dozen passengers came on the car; while passing a store, seven “kids” climbed aboard, and clear down to the incline gave such a specimen of cussedness that would never be tolerated on the Bowery.

Wrestling, scrapping, kicking and yelling, annoying all the passengers, even to insulting two women passengers by throwing one another’s dirty cans into the faces of the women!

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An interesting item from the New York Times, July 07, 1937:

Amateur films jungle in colors: Duluth banker sails today from Paris with rare movies of natives and animals

Laurence O. Anderson of the Northern National Bank of Duluth, Minn., after a month’s holiday in the Belgian Congo, will sail for the United States tomorrow on the Normandle with what probably are the first amateur motion pictures in color of native and animal life in Africa.

From the August 2003 Perfect Duluth Day archives:

• The B-52s cancel a Duluth show due to lack of ticket sales.
• Starfire endorses Greg Gilbert for mayor and plots to cover Enger Tower in bedsheets.
• Ca-chee recalls her days as a bad ass in shop class at “Ordeal” Junior High.
• Dirty Knobs vs. Duluth, Minnesota is released
• More skinny dipping.
• Godsey drinks excessively.
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