Several brick buildings are going up (in Luverne), the brick being shipped from Mankato. The Methodists and Baptists each have good church buildings, the former built of Mankato brick, and the latter of Minneapolis lumber. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Wednesday Morning, May 15, 1878, Volume I, Number 121, Page 1)
The Mankato brick company have made this season 3,300,000 brick – 2,000,000 have been sold, and 900,000 are now in process of burning. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Thursday Morning, August 15, 1878, Volume I, Number 81, Page 213)
Mankato Brick company started up a steam machine for manufacturing pressed brick yesterday. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Monday Morning, June 2, 1879, Volume II, Number 139, Page 2)
The Mankato Brick company have got their new machine in full blast, and now turn out seventy bricks a minute. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Thursday Morning, June 12, 1879, Volume II, Number 149, Page 5)
The Mankato brick company has finished burning a kiln of 80,000 pressed brick. The brick manufactured by this company are of a handsome grey color and in much demand. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Monday Morning, June 30, 1879, Volume II, Number 167, Page 2)
Mankato News. Mankato, July 5. – The recent storm did a good deal of damage in this locality. At upper yard, the Mankato Brick Co. lost 50,000 brick, and the dry sheds are left in a bad condition. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Monday Morning, July 7, 1879, Volume II, Number 174, Page 1)
Geo. E. Brett has a keen eye for the pretty and shows it in the tasteful manner in which he is having the walks about his residence laid with the handsome Mankato gray brick. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Thursday Morning, August 7, 1879, Volume II, Number 205, Page 2)
St. Paul & Sioux City road has reduced the freight tariff on brick and stone from Mankato to Blue Earth City to $10 per car. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Wednesday Morning, December 3, 1879, Volume II, Number 323, Page 2)
The Mankato brick company sold last week 600,000 to Duluth, for the Iron Smelting company, to Winona 300,000 for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad company, and 300,000 more to different individuals, making in all 1,200,000. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Monday Morning, February 23, 1880, Volume III, Number 54, Page 1)
The Mankato brick company are filling orders from the Duluth iron company for 950,000 brick. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Monday Morning, May 3, 1880, Volume III, Number 124, Page 2)
It (Mankato Normal School) is built of Mankato brick, trimmed with Mankato stone, and is a neat and imposing structure. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Wednesday Morning, March 5, 1884, Volume VII, Number 65, Page 2)
Mankato. Work upon the foundation of the new block under process of construction by John F. Meagher is progressing finely. It is to be fifty by eighty, two stories high and basement, will be used for mercantile purposes, and will be built of Mankato brick and stone. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1884, Volume VII, Number 66, Page 6)
Mr. C. Ochs, the contractor for the mason work on the new school house, informs us that brick laying will be commenced sometime next week. Mankato brick will be used in the construction of the building, owing to the inability of Mr. Aufderheide to supply the same at this time. (New Ulm Weekly Review, Wednesday, May 21, 1884, Volume VII, Number 20, Page 3)
Business in the city (Waseca) seems to be on the increase. It has been rather dull all the spring. New buildings are going up all around and among them we notice that N. J. Breen has erected a new brick shop, for a wagon and blacksmith shop, 24x70, two stories high. It is built of Mankato brick and is quite an ornament to that part of the city. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Monday Morning, June 23, 1884, Volume VII, Number 175, Page 3)
The sheriff’s residence and jail – one building – is built of Mankato brick, two stories high, and has more the appearance of a gentleman’s private residence than of a public office. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Friday Morning, September 26, 1884, Volume VII, Number 270, Page 2)
Huron has a complete system of graded schools. The school house is a large two story brick, built out of Mankato brick. They employ six teachers and have a regular attendance of 320 scholars. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Thursday Morning, December 18, 1884, Volume VII, Number 353, Page 3)
There are some anomalies in railroad traffic in this state that the railroad commissioners might study with profit. For instance, the town of St. Peter, recently burned out, is preparing to rebuild, the new structures to be of brick. St. Peter is ten miles from Mankato by rail, and a little more than that by wagon road. Two railroads connect the towns. Singular as it may seem, the St. Peter people are hauling their bricks from Mankato, and doing it at less cost than they could have them shipped by rail. This state of affairs has a parallel in the express business between Minneapolis and St. Paul. There is a certain firm doing a large express business between the two cities with teams. They make prompt delivery and at rates below those by rail. Their profits are by no means small. (The Saint Daily Paul Globe, Sunday Morning, January 29, 1888, Volume X, Number 29, Page 4)
Fairmont’s New School House. Fairmont, Minn., March 21. – (Special) – Bids for the construction of the high school building were opened and the contract awarded to Wm. G. Ehlert, of Fairmont, who made the lowest bid. The building will contain four school rooms below and above will be for the use of the high school. The bid contemplates Mankato brick and Kasota stone, but the probability is that better brick will be used for the outside, thus increasing the cost. (The Saint Paul Globe, Thursday Morning, March 22, 1900, Volume XXIII, Number 81, Page 3)
Mankato’s New Hospital. German Lutheran Institution to Be Dedicated Wednesday. Mankato, Minn. – The new Immanuel hospital, just erected by the German Lutheran Hospital association at a cost of $35,000, will be dedicated Wednesday. Special rates have been secured on the railroads entering Mankato, and several thousand German, Norwegian and Swedish Lutherans are expected to attend. The present building is expected to be the main or administration building, the others to be erected as the demand calls for them. The building is four stories high, above a high basement, 48x86 feet, and is constructed of Mankato limestone as far as the second story windows, and of Mankato hard burned brick above that, trimmed with stone and chipped brick. The hospital will accommodate forty patients, and will be in charge of several trained nurses, who will also have charge of a nurses’ class of six to begin with. It has electric elevator, private telephone system, two operating rooms. The hospital is to be supported by the church congregations of Minnesota, northern Iowa and South Dakota. It is not to be a money taking institution, and what funds may be received above the operating expenses will be used for betterments. (The Minneapolis Journal, Monday Evening, November 12, 1906, Page 11)