On This Day | Give a Man a Job

The campaign was started last week, in conjunction with public-spirited newspapers and newspapermen throughout the state of North Dakota to knock old man 'Depression' into a cocked hat. The campaign is now under way.

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On This Day | Prohibitionist Inspires Infamous Idiom

That the country is facing the greatest period of debauchery, since the days following the Civil war, as a result of the newly legalized beer, which he expects to be stronger than that 'of

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On This Day | Twas Ever Thus in Minot

Minot voters will go to the polls next Tuesday to vote for sixty some candidates for mayor, aldermen, treasurer and police magistrate. The city election is the great “spring sport” in Minot. Candidates and

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On This Day | Signs of Past Times

The whole Minot district is covered with Indian flint arrow heads, relics of the early days when the Red men battled with warriors from other tribes, and hunted the buffalo that were plentiful on

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On This Day | Destroying the Wheat Market

The state administration has reduced the price of flour manufactured at the state owned mill to a price 50 cents a sack lower than can be done by private mills, unless they operate at

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Montana has an official state sport — rodeo

Montana is set to celebrate its deep-rooted heritage with a new official state sport — American Rodeo. Once Governor Greg Gianforte signs House Bill 190, Montana will become the fourth state to honor its cultural traditions in this way, joining the ranks of Colorado’s pack burro racing and Alaska’s dog mushing. While the decision drew

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Listen: Swedish government to lend companies billions for new nuclear reactors

Sweden is preparing to make a major investment in nuclear energy, with the government and Sweden Democrats proposing a plan to help finance the construction of four new reactors. The state would lend companies SEK 300 billion to cover most of the estimated SEK 400 billion cost. While supporters see it as a step toward

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Prairie Fare: Are seed oils good or bad for health?

“I think we need to toss the oil that is stored in the cupboard,” I said to my intern. She agreed to do the “sniff test” on the variety of oils. She reported several of the bottles had a crayon-like aroma, a hallmark of rancidity or spoilage. She also checked the best-if-used-by dates. Some of

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On This Day | Crop Report Statistics

A total of 16,810,000 acres will be planted in crops in North Dakota this spring, according to Intentions to Plan reports received from farmers by the agricultural statistician at Fargo.

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On This Day | How High’s the Water Papa

The level of the water in the wells of Minot has been growing lower steadily, according to Lewis Ellis, proprietor of the Granite Springs Water Co., who has been supplying thousands of Minot homes

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On This Day | Democrats Draw 2,500 to Minot

Altho hotel accommodations are at a premium for the North Democratic convention to be held at Minot next Wednesday, ample provisions are to be made for housing all delegates, it was announced today by

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On This Day | The Origins of Easter Bunnies and Eggs

The rabbit is another pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility. Modern people have lost sight of what these symbols designate but have continued the ancient customs.

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On This Day | A Famed Indians Life

Two Guns White Calf was in his seventy-second year. He unquestionably was the most outstanding Indian in the United States during the last 20 years, or in fact, since 1910, after Congress passed the

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On This Day | 141 Years Ago Today

Fifty Years Ago this week, Fairmont Creamer Company was organized, and thuout all these 50 years have always tried to please the sellers of cream and produce.

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On This Day | Communists Are Meeting

No sheriff sales, foreclosures and evictions of ruined farmers, and no seizure of their crops, livestock, poultry, or implements and machinery for debts.

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On This Day | The First Robin

North Dakotans eagerly await the return of the robins and the meadowlarks with their cheerful notes, after a long winter when about the only birds one sees in this district in winter are the

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