Only amusing if you don’t know anything about Minneapolis, western expansion, or railroads.
No, I grew up there (though I was born in Iowa). I was making a comment about how usually Harvard and the like forget about places like Minnesota. So it's amusing in the sense that you have to go back to 1906 to find a time when they don't.
Cursory search yields two things:
Flour mills [0] and railway system [1]