QUESTION: Local children’s author Dorothy Maywood Bird described making Christmas presents as a child that began with cutting circles of felt and then adding buttons or ribbon bows. What was she making? Answer: D. Pen-wipers. She added that “the top layer could be very attractive since no one would dream of wiping a pen on it. People decorated their snowshoes. Dorothy remembered that hers had pink and blue tufts and mother’s had red yarn rosettes.
A recently unearthed pop bottle with the name and image of Chief Kawbawgam sparked an interest in the early years of Marquette Bottling Works, which produced the commemorative bottle. Although Marquette Bottling Works was not the first local company to combine carbonated water with ...
MARQUETTE — Alfred Peter Swineford, a native of Ashland, Ohio, was apprenticed to a printer at the age of 15. At the end of his apprenticeship in 1853, he began Albert Lea, Minnesota’s first newspaper, the Southern Star. In the 1860s the Copperheads (also known as the Peace Democrats) ...
QUESTION: Which of these was NOT mined or quarried in the Ishpeming area? a. Peat b. Asbestos c. Nickel d. Gold Answer: C.
