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St. Vincent. This growing town of 500 inhabitants is the state terminus of the St. P., M. & M. Ry, and also of the St. Vincent branch of the Canadian Pacific Ry. It is situated in the extreme northwestern point of Kittson county and of the State alike, on the Red River of the North, is 390 miles from St. Paul, and the seat of the county of Kittson. A regular line of steamers makes daily trips on the Red river from St. Vincent to Winnipeg, Manitoba, carrying passengers and freight and making close connection with the arrival and departure of
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trains. St. Vincent has a steam elevator of 90,000 bushels capacity, a bank, a brewery, a brickyard, a hotel, a newspaper, the Herald, 3 general stores and a district school, while a church is being erected. The town is only a little over one year old. Daily mail over the St. P., M. & M. and Canadian Pacific railways. D. F. Brawley, postmaster. (Minnesota State Gazetteer and Business Directory Including Dakota Territory, 1880-81, Volume II, R. L. Polk & Co. and A. C. Danser, St. Paul and Detroit)