I’m going through old papers from 1912 in advance of the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and stumbled across this editorial that ran in the News-Tribune on April 17, 1912.

At that time the early rivalry and battles between Duluth and Superior – over the ship canal, etc. – still were in living memory. But the newspaper found “one (issue) on which we can get together” – Superior’s superiority as a site for a horse-racing track:

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