The certificate records the payment of thirty-four cents in tax by the P. M. Medicine Company as a manufacturer or distributor of opium. The tax was paid on February 23, 1915 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Booklet devoted to household information including medical remedies, recipes, paint recipes, food preservation, household information, trivia and world facts, etc.
Issued by Mark's Drug Store in Fosston, Minnesota. Mark's Drug Store Monthly features advertisements from Fosston-area businesses, jokes, recipes and cartoons.
The certificate certifies that on September 2, 1907, Margaret Martha Mark was awarded seven shares of the capital stock of P. M. Mark Medicine Company, at the value of $100 per share. Signed by Harold F. Mark and Peter M. Mark.
This booklet is a compilation of statutes of the State of Minnesota regarding the practice of pharmacy. Sample topics include the qualification and registration of pharmacists; the sale of cocaine, poisons or abortifacients; and the distribution of samples of drugs.
Label reads: "The Larson Family in 1909. Back row: Homer, Grace, Vivian, Phinney, Louise, Bessie, Lillian; the four in front: Mrs. [Johanna] Larson, Victor, Nora and Mr. [Ludgwig] Larson." Ludwig and Johanna Larson arrived in Fosston in about 1885. They were a prominent early Fosston family. Larson dealt in real estate, owned a general store, the Opera House and established the lumberyard, among other ventures. Their home was moved from its original location on the corner of First Street and Inderlee Avenue to Melland Park along Highway 2. Today the house serves as the home of the East Polk Heritage Center.
This panorama photograph is taken from the top of a grain elevator, looking north from near the intersection of First Street and Davis Avenue. The image shows railroad tracks, grain elevators, the water tower, the Fosston Woolen Mills, and the High Shool. The High School was built in 1905 and burned down in 1913. The image also shows residences and other buildings of the town of Fosston.
The photograph caption reads, "Asphult, 1889-1919." The church building was built in 1890 and vacated in 1965. In 1975 the building was moved to the Pennington County Historical Village in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
Cabinet photograph of Truman Elwell Rickard (1881-1948) in winter attire. In 1904, as a University of Minnesota student, Truman Elwell Rickard (composed the music and wrote the original words for "Hail! Minnesota," which became the Minnesota state song in 1945. Rickard later married Grace Larson, a daughter of L.W. Larson, a prominant early Fosston settler.
Framed license from the Board of Pharmacy of the State of Minnesota, issued on March 4, 1893 certified Peter M. Mark of Fosston, Minnesota as a registered Pharmacist.