When I was a kid, I could imagine no worse job than working in a toothpick factory. It seemed like the epitome of tedium, and I always chose it as my "bad" option in fortune-telling games like MASH.

In the early days of Cloquet, the wood products mill in the east end of Cloquet was variously known as "the match mill" or "the toothpick factory," and it appears that the local plant is on track to ...