Clay School serves the first "penny luncheon" in Minneapolis, "a financial and dietetic experiment" by the Woman's Club of Minneapolis and the Parents and Teachers' Association. For two cents each, students purchase a meal of creamed rice (with raisins) and bread and cocoa, a "more wholesome . . . repast than many of the youngsters have been buying . . . in confectionery stores in the neighborhood." If the luncheons prove successful, the Minneapolis Journal notes, "the school board will be asked to authorize their establishment in a number of other public schools."

A six-day bicycle race begins at the Washington Avenue Rink in Minneapolis, with some of the best-known professional male bicyclists in the country competing for the prizes of a medal (sponsored by the Minneapolis Tribune and "emblematic of the long distance championship of America") and an "elegant suit of clothes, which will be presented by Oscar the Tailor." Held within the rink, the race is also an endurance test for each participant, who pedals his high wheel bicycle, with a big front wheel and a small rear wheel, around the track for the "largest score" of miles covered.

The states of Minnesota and North Dakota agree that Minnesotans who work in North Dakota and North Dakotans who work in Minnesota will not be required to pay income tax in both states.

Ralph Waldo Emerson lectures in Winona at the courthouse. Sponsored by local library associations, Emerson's tour of the Midwest also includes stops in Faribault, St. Paul, and Minneapolis.

Catholic bishop John Ireland dedicates the organ in the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Faribault.

A fire destroys much of the business section of Morristown, Rice County, burning twenty buildings, including a bank, post office, and hotel.

Farmers in Clarks Grove, Freeborn County, form a dairy cooperative. This co-op is not the state's first, but its success would inspire other communities to use Clarks Grove's organizational system and its bylaws, which were written in Danish, as a model.

Kentucky Congressman James Proctor Knott delivers the speech "The Glories of Duluth" in Congress, mocking the city in an effort to defeat a bill granting land to the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad. Duluth's citizens appreciate the free publicity, however, and the town of Proctor is named for him.

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) announces the invention of a machine for the mass recording of magnetic audio tape.

Private Milburn Henke of Hutchinson, serving with the American Expeditionary Force, is the first enlisted man deployed to Europe in World War II.