On this day in Duluth in 1928 Percy Shelley Anneke, who with August Fitger established the Fitger & Co. Lake Superior Brewery in 1885, died in Alhambra, California. He was seventy-eight years old. Named by his mother for the British poet, Anneke was born in Milwaukee in 1850 after his  parents fled the German revolution…

On this day in Duluth in 1919, the Duluth News Tribune’s Walter O’Hara announced that a book was in the works that would tell “untold tales of Duluth’s part in war.” The book would be written by W. E. Culkin and Louis McLeod recount the exploits of the Duluth District of the American Protective League,…

On this day in 1978, Duluth native Don Marlowe died at his home in Santa Barbara, California. According to biographer David Ouse,  Marlowe’s Hollywood career in the 1930s and 1940s is difficult to trace; he isn’t listed in any movie roles and made questionable claims about appearing in certain films. (He often claimed he played…