On this day in 1940, the USS Paducah—training vessel of the Duluth Naval Militia—and her crew of naval reservists from Duluth arrived in Brooklyn, New York, where it would spend the next few years training sailors for battle during the Second World War. Launched in 1904, the Paducah was a Dubuque-class gunboat that joined the…

On this day in Duluth in 1914, “Sport,” a dog owned by St. Louis County Sheriff John Meining, died of distemper. The dog, according to the Duluth News Tribune, had been battling a “valiant fight” with the disease for months. Sport was “gentle as a lamb when off duty, [but] once he lowered his muzzle…