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1 week ago |
herald-journal.com | Brian Haines
The year was 1935, and the outlook for the United States of America was bleak at best. The Great Depression had ravaged the nation. Unemployment was at a staggering 20%, and the economic growth rate was on a steady decline. To fill the void of unemployed workers, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made an executive order May 6 for the creation of the Works Progress Administration, or WPA for short.
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2 weeks ago |
herald-journal.com | Brian Haines
The year was 1856, and McLeod County, which had only been in existence for one year, was about to be the site of a skirmish between Dakota and Ojibwa natives. In July of that year, nine Dakota/Sioux men departed their reservation on a hunting trip in the big woods of McLeod County. The group was a mere two miles north of Hutchinson, when they encountered nine Ojibwa/Chippewa. According to the Dakota hunters, the Ojibwa had traveled south to raid the isolated cabins that dotted the landscape.
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3 weeks ago |
workdesign.com | Brian Haines
Just 20 years ago, organizations seeking to understand how their office space was utilized had to conduct manual surveys that involved walking through the space and counting how many people occupied different areas. To gather meaningful insights into usage patterns and trends these types of manual surveys needed to be performed regularly. Today, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors do the job in real time, offering insights not just into where people are, but why they’re there—or not.
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1 month ago |
herald-journal.com | Brian Haines
The year was 1861, and the United States was in the beginning stages of a bloody Civil War. Tensions between northern and southern states over issues of federal overreach and slavery erupted April 12 when southern Confederates opened fire on a Union garrison at Fort Sumter, SC. Two days later, President Abraham Lincoln sent out a call for 75,000 volunteers for the Union Army. “. . .
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1 month ago |
herald-journal.com | Brian Haines
The year was 1857. Enoch and George Holmes, two young natives of Pittsburgh, PA, had just arrived in Minnesota. The two brothers set their sights on Carver, where they opened a general store under the name of “Holmes Brothers.” The store was an instant success, and with the money he made, Enoch Holmes invested in some real estate across the county line in McLeod County on the shores of Kennick Lake.
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