On this day in Duluth in 1887, a fire destroyed two brothels in Duluth’s notorious St. Croix District, part of today’s Canal Park Business District. Fire broke out at 8 a.m. in the house May Addison operated at 233 St. Croix Avenue, known today as Canal Park Drive. By the time firefighters arrived, the building…

On this day in Duluth in 1928, the Duluth News Tribune reported that bandits had held up the toll collectors at either end of the Interstate Bridge. The double robbery was the fifth hold-up in Duluth in less than two weeks; the other three were at filling stations. The paper reported that the “holdup men…

On this day in Duluth in 1923, Margaret “Peggy”Ann Knudsen was born to firefighter Conrad Knudsen and his wife Lulu. According to biographer David Ouse, after graduating Stanbrook Hall [a high school associated with Monastery of St. Scholastic] in 1941, Knudsen’s recently widowed mother moved the family to Chicago. Peggy soon landed a leading role…