An ideal summer place where Dame Nature spreads in a maze of bewildering beauty the choicest examples of her handiwork.
Queen of Western lakes, with a climate made pure and health giving by the rarified air of a high altitude, and cooled by the grateful winds of the North.
A famous health resort with sumptuous hotels and home-like accommodations for the convenience of thousand[s] of visitors, who find here health and happiness.
Attractions unlimited with superb railroad accomodations furnished by the Great Northern, the Minneapolis and St. Louis and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railways.
This most beautiful of Northwestern lakes is within twenty minutes ride of Minneapolis and forty minutes from St. Paul, and offers every facility for surf-bathing, fishing, boating, picnicking, etc.”
— National Health Journal Vol. VIII. No 12. June 15, 1899
