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was the best obtianable. The attendants were young people, students at high school or college; these, in return for their hours of service, learned the civilities of life and received substantial help in paying their school expenses. On
Sundays, the place was closed to the public. Russell made restaurant living not only respectable but popular. Her place had a national reputation. There was nothing really like it in the U.S. Minneapolis was at that time a city of only about 15,000, and the coffee house guests averaged 2,500 a day. For five years, she conducted this establishment, when she reluctantly left it.
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It was about the year 1888 when, being called to open and manage a coffee house in
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Russell, her mother and her sister began providing care ti the sick and wounded at 194 Broadway, known as the
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