Boosterism, WPA style

 From a booklet we've visited before on HH comes accounts of a few businesses you'll recognize if you grew up in the St Cloud area.  The whole book is fun to read--it was a tourist guide written by the WPA writers project, and published in 1937.
Here's the history of the car shops in Waite Park, and surprisingly, the grain elevator near the Fire Station south of Cathedral HS, and the "Watab Paper& Pulp Mill" in Sartell:

This was 1937, remember.  The VA had been open for 13 years and had 47 buildings.  Patients there were vets from WWI, I suppose, but look at the staff enumeration.  Pretty interesting: