In 1918, holidays in Cloquet were met with hammers and hope
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Classified ads calling for carpenters in Cloquet were placed in newspapers across the region following the Oct. 12, 1918 fire that destroyed much of the city and its environs.
For more than a year, Carlton County has been commemorating the firestorm of 1918. There have been photographs and artifact displays, talks by historians, and readings of first-person accounts. And yet it can still be difficult to fathom just what life was like in the county that fall with a moonscape of ashes all around.
It's what makes things eerie when the fire gets placed back in the news 100 years later, not as a historical marker but as a gruesome comparison to what is happening now in California. The Camp Fire near Chico has claimed scores of lives, with hundreds of people still mis...
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