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Follow on Google News | Local Roofing Company Uncovers Unique Piece of Minnesota HistoryStorm Group Roofing, L.L.C., a Twin Cities roofing contractor, uncovers hundreds of local prohibition-era newspapers in a West Minneapolis home.
By: Storm Group Roofing, L.L.C. The papers' headlines, stories, and advertisements provide a fascinating insight to life in the Twin Cities during prohibition. Some of the trending topics of the day included the rise of radio programming, "autos" that could top 70 M.P.H., and the nationwide ban on alcohol. The various headlines range from sobering ("5-Year-Old Killed By Auto On Snelling Ave.") while others are more mystifying ("41 Barbers Convicted of Soiled Towel Use"). The Storm Group Roofing team of roofing contractors recovered and saved over 250 pounds of newspapers printed by The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, and Minneapolis Star over eight decades ago. The newspapers had been stitched together and assembled into insulation by Multi-Cell Sales Corporation, a local manufacturing company previously located at 3420 Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis. "I've worked on thousands of homes and businesses and have never seen newspapers used as insulation in this way before," said Dmitry Lipinskiy, owner of Storm Group Roofing. "The newspapers were used to insulate the entire house and nearly all of them remained perfectly preserved!" Lipinskiy and his team of Minneapolis roofers uncovered the newspapers while performing various roofing services on the West Minneapolis house built in 1921. The homeowner chose Storm Group Roofing because of the company's unique solution for attic insulation, a system much more efficient than old newspapers. The roofers removed all of the older newspaper insulation and put in state-of-the- Lipinskiy's profound appreciation for world history forbade him from disposing of these papers as he typically would with other scrap construction materials. He is currently storing the historic newspapers at the Storm Group Roofing warehouse in Brooklyn Park and hopes to donate them to a museum or historical society. "Finding these newspapers not only opened my eyes to past home construction practices... but also to a truly special time in the history of Minneapolis," About Storm Group Roofing Visit the Storm Group Roofing YouTube channel to view a brief video featuring the historic newspapers found. Storm Group Roofing provides superior roofing services for the entire Twin Cities metro area. The Minneapolis roofing contractor also offers premium gutter installation, vinyl siding installation, and ice dam removal services for residential and commercial properties. End
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