Paper presented by Monsignor James M. Reardon at the 1909 annual conventions of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of St. Paul, Minnesota, and of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: HV5072 .R4 1909
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home
Date Created:
1912
Description:
In 1907 the legislature of Minnesota made provision for a Detention Home in Hennepin county, under the joint direction of the Judge of the District Court and the Board of County Commissioners. Judge John Day Smith, who first stirred public sentiment to the necessity of a home for boys, was assigned to the Juvenile Court work, which also included the location and equipment of the home. Ninety-two acres of land were bought, and a ten-room farm house, barns and outbuildings were soon remodeled, made modern and ready for occupancy in February, 1909, when the first boys arrived. Contents of this year include: board of managers (including photos); maintenance; expenditures; roll of admission/release; justification and organizational structure; equipment, crops, and stock; daily schedule; map; backgrounds, offenses and/or dependency, nativity, and ages of boys; dining room; government; education, discipline, and religious instruction; library; letters; parental demographics; amusements; Boys' Friends (male and female volunteers/benefactors); photos of grounds and of boys at work/play.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Glen Lake Farm School for Boys; Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Home
Date Created:
1911-12-31
Description:
In 1907 the legislature of Minnesota made provision for a Detention Home in Hennepin county, under the joint direction of the Judge of the District Court and the Board of County Commissioners. Judge John Day Smith, who first stirred public sentiment to the necessity of a home for boys, was assigned to the Juvenile Court work, which also included the location and equipment of the home. Ninety-two acres of land were bought, and a ten-room farm house, barns and outbuildings were soon remodeled, made modern and ready for occupancy in February, 1909, when the first boys arrived. Contents of this year include: board of managers; inception; financial support; officers and employees; justification and organizational structure; equipment, crops, and stock; work descriptions; daily schedule; map; backgrounds, offenses and/or dependency, nativity, and ages of boys; education, discipline, and religious instruction; library; parental demographics; amusements; Boys' Friends (male and female volunteers/benefactors); photos of grounds.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Minneapolis Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals
Date Created:
1894
Description:
Annual Report including: bequest language; directors and committee members; president's report; secretary's report; treasurer's and assistant treasurer's report; report of totals of complaints investigated, substantiated, and adjudicated, including arrests, convictions, "instruments of torture taken," and referrals, placement of children into temporary homes, public, religious, or reform schools; animals euthanized or treated, with breakdown by type of animal and condition found/environment, and "reproved" animal owners; honorary members roster; contributing members roster; statement of "how to proceed" (how to notify office of cruelty), objectives of the society, promise of confidentiality, humane euthanizing arrangements; laws of Minnesota now in force: Cruelty to Children (Penal Code, Title 10, Chapter 3), laws of 1893; Cruelty to Animals (Penal Code, Title 16); obituary record; resolutions adopted 1894; advertisements.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Hanford, Bertha, State and County Agent for the Blind
Date Created:
1930
Description:
The district's size was reduced in 1929, dropping Koochiching county. Vocational training and employment for adults included: shoe shining, shoe repairing, general farming, rabbit raising, poultry raising, elevator operating, salesmanship, peddling, domestic service, and piano repair and tuning. This agency operated under the State Department for the Blind, Children's Bureau, Board of Control and the St. Louis County Board of Commissioners. Its work was for the prevention and treatment of people with blindness. The reports give objectives, staff, and statistics. Its district included St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Cook, and Lake Counties.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Annual report of the Unity Settlement Association for 1920 including: officers, directors, committees, resident staff, note about Representing Unity Settlement, reports of Unity Settlement, Employment Bureau and Friendly Visiting, Day Nursery, Infant Welfare Clinic, Girls' Department, Boys Department, Game Room, music lessons, summer playground, library station, probation report, miscellaneous groups, special occasions, volunteer workers, resident director's work, as well as a word of appreciation, a note on "our needs," a numerical listing of attendance at various programs, treasurer's report, and photographs of Unity house and two children.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The report lists the names of Unity Settlement Association officers, residents, and volunteers; activities offered by the settlement association including clubs and sports for boys, girls, and adults; the treasurer's itemized annual report.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
The report lists the names of Unity Settlement Association officers, board of directors, and committee chairs. Account of settlement club activities including a training class for drafted men, a Mothers' Club "made up largely of women of foreign birth," and the Girls' Liberty League. The treasurer's report lists annual income and expenditures.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Triennial report containing a brief history of the Washburn Memorial Orphan Asylum and a financial report for 1916 to 1919. Superintendent's report includes information on the educational practices and health of the children.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Bill of Sale for a slave named London, sold by Tabatha Wheeten to Nathaniel Willmarth in 1722 in the County of Bristol, Massachusetts bay, New England. Willmarth was the great grandfather of an uncle by marriage to Elisha Slye, only survivor of a family which came to Minneapolis in 1856.
Société de Temperance de la Paroisse St. Louis, de St. Paul, Minnesota
Date Created:
1875
Description:
Constitution and regulations of the Temperance Society of the Parish of Saint Louis King of France in St. Paul, Minnesota, a Roman Catholic French national parish serving French Candadian immigrants. Lists the Society's dues, member expectations, violations, fines, policies, and parliamentary procedures for conducting Society business. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: HV5298.S3 C5 1875
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Young Men's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1889-05-18
Description:
Annual report of the 23rd year's work of the Minneapolis YMCA containing financial and narrative reports by the president, other officers, and committee chairmen. Committees cover employment, education, housing, and religion, among additional administrative duties. Included in the report are a list of contributors, a sketch of the exterior of the Association Building, and floor plans for the basement, first and second floors of the Association Building.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Pamphlet showing the benefits to the town of Willmar, Minnesota after six years of being dry. The results include decreased taxes and an increase in post office receipts, bank deposits, and population.
Woman's Christian Association of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886-02-25
Description:
Annual report containing financial reports of the Woman's Boarding Home and Industrial School. Includes the Association's constitution and by-laws, number of visits, and letters detailing financial and physical donations, and families helped that year.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Pamphlet for Honorable Engebret E. Lobeck, a prohibition candidate for governor of Minnesota. Lobeck ran on the Prohibition Party ticket in the 1912 election.
Woman's Christian Association; Woman's Boarding Home
Date Created:
1883
Description:
Annual report of the Woman's Christian Association for the year ending February 25 1883 including: officers, directors, notices, annual report of the Officers and Directors, Treasurer's Annual Report, Visitor's report, Acting Visitor's Report, Constitution, By-laws. Also includes Annual Report of Woman's Boarding Home, including: officers, annual report, financial statement, constitution, by-laws, regulations, and Industrial School report.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual report including a statistical and financial summary of the Big Sister Department of the Women's Co-operative Alliance, Inc., 1920. "The Big Sister Department gives friendly advice and supervision in housing, recreation, and employment to the strange or handicapped young women in the city." Includes an organizational chart of the Women's Co-operative Alliance of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual report containing reports by the director, superintendent, and treasurer accompanied by anecdotal accounts of the mission's accomplishments. Anecdotal reports section titled "Homes Transformed" provides three examples of the positive impact of the mission. Includes photos of the dormitories, services, restaurant, kitchen, The Mission Hotel, and The Gospel Wagon.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual report featuring a statement by the president, highlights from the departments and committees (Education and Publicity Department, Research and Investigation Department, the Big Sister Department, Law Enforcement Committee, Education and Publicity Committee, and volunteer committees), general information to other agencies, information on social hygiene, surveys and studies of community conditions, statement of receipts and disbursements for the year ending December 31, 1920, an organizational chart, and a list of affiliated organizations.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library