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revenue. Many of the smaller minor leagues around the country folded. The
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A construction budget totaling $ 163,232 was set. But, due to cost overruns, the final cost of the stadium was $ 230,880. During construction, the project received several bailouts. One bailout came from Duluth's newly elected mayor, Edward H. Hatch, who purchased the materials needed to finish
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used the WPA to fund projects to boost employment. One of these projects was the removal of the brick roadbed from Grand Avenue, which was then paved with asphalt. During the fall of 1940, road crews removed 381,000 bricks from the surface of Grand Avenue. Another WPA crew used these bricks to
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Chantigney gathered more than 7,500 signatures to place a construction bond measure on the
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Blues. When the Blues folded in 1955, the Dukes (known as the White Sox during the 1956–59 seasons) became the Duluth–Superior Dukes. The original Dukes played in Wade
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baseball team who have won 19 straight Upper
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