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End of era for Kohler Mix family
WHITE BEAR PRESS CELEBRATES 125 YEARS
April 17 marks the 125-year anniversary of the White Bear Press. In commemoration, we have assembled 125 highlights about the history of the newspaper and the significant events that have happened in the community it has served since 1896. The newspaper’s history and the community’s history go hand in hand. We have published many of the highlights and headlines here; a full list can be found at www.presspubs.com. •
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BY DEBRA NEUTKENS STAFF WRITER
The fi rst weekly newspaper chronicling the activities in the small vacation village of White Bear Lake during the last decade of the 19th century was called “The Lake Breeze.”
THE FIRST EDITION OF WHITE BEAR LIFE WAS PUBLISHED APRIL 17, 1896. THE PERIOD AT THE END OF THE FLAG WAS COMMON FOR NEWSPAPERS AT THE TIME.
Bear Lake and the surrounding community. He boasted the newspaper would be “without distinction of nationality, politics, or creed. It will be made, so far as possible, a live home paper, working for local interests and the building up of the business of the city and its summer resort.”
The fi rst newspaper was fi nancially unstable, prompting A.S. Dimond to begin publishing “White Bear Life.” He had 20 years of newspaper experience. The fi rst edition hit the streets on April 17, 1896. Dimond's fi rst edition included a greeting to the citizens of White
The last member of the Kohler family retired last month after 50plus years with the White Bear Lake company started by his grandparents, Henry and Blanche, in the 1920s. Doug Kohler ended his long career at the SUBMITTED dairy mix plant This 1990’s brochure shows as maintenance manag- some of the ice cream proder. He started it ucts made with Kohler Mix. washing milk cans at age 13. The cans held a mix of cream, whey, milk and sugars — all the ingredients to create soft serve ice cream. The Kohlers went into the ice cream mix business in 1929, opening Kohler's Romance Parlors on Washington Avenue with Henry's brother Aloys. They manufactured their own ice cream for the first counter freezer installed in the state.
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White Bear Life was published every Thursday, and the annual subscription was one dollar.
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The office was on Third Street, next to H.M. Hendel's Meat Market.
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On Aug. 12, 1899, Dimond sold White Bear Life to Edward L. Fales.
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After more than 14 years as owner and editor, Fales sold White Bear Life and the job printing business to Herbert J. Keeler, of Prescott, Wisconsin, on Jan. 24, 1914.
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Keeler also started an undertaking business
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In April 1914, Keeler published a 16-page Easter souvenir issue, which introduced the newspaper's new name: “White Bear Press.”
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Early issues of the White Bear Press reported local and national news events. It reported on who was being sent overseas to fight in the “war to end all wars,” who came back — and who didn't.
SEE KOHLER MIX, PAGE 13
SEE 125 YEARS, PAGE 12
Racist messages prompt high school walkout in solidarity with Black students White Bear Lake high schoolers gathered in the rainy parking lot at South Campus last Friday in support of Black classmates who were targeted with a series of hateful messages over social media. The messages, which included racial slurs and threats of violence, were sent from an anonymous Instagram account that used a White Bear school logo. Many
of the targeted students were members of the school’s Black Excellence Club. Students wore black clothing in solidarity with their classmates, and listened as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) students shared their experiences of harassment and discrimination in school and in the wider community. “I know a lot of you were maybe SEE WALKOUT, PAGE 9
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Students gathered outside of South Campus to share their stories of the ways racism and discrimination have affected their day-to-day lives. They called on the district to better enforce punishments for discriminatory behavior, and for their classmates to stand up and be active allies to the BIPOC community.
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