On This Day | Minot May Flouridate Municipal Water

Dr. F.E. Wheelon, head of the First District Health unit, reports that school children of two townships in Burke county have no dental decay. He is going to check the water supply in that

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On This Day | Around the Dakotas

In this country, thank goodness, every man decides for himself what he wants to do, where he wants to live -- who he's going to vote for -- whether he prefers a glass of

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On This Day | New “Cream” Adds Sugar

Sugar is added to the cream in the manufacturing process and bacteria can't grow in a concentrated sugar solution.

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On This Day | November 21

On this day hot air was useful for more than politics, silicon valley connected for the first time, and a brutal war ended. In Minot, the miracles of modern food and health were being touted, but time may have proven them presumptuous. Locally, we were singing the praises of modern marvels -- as long as we were shown the notes. And the Chamber was making a play -- for baseball.

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On This Day | Chamber Backs Baseball

Minot Baseball Incorporated received from the Board of Directors of the Minot Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning and expression that they should apply for membership in the Northern

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On This Day | Thanks for the Healing Agents of Modern Medicine

As The Health News Institute recently pointed out, at least 845,000 men, women and children are alive today, thanks to healing agents which even a decade ago were still unknown.

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On This Day | November 20

On this day German war criminals answered for their crimes, the withdrawal from Vietnam began, and the world got windows for the first time. In Minot, we were planning a YMCA, we were proud of all the planting we had done, wind was fueling our farms and we were singing the praises of DDT. Whoops.

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On This Day | Get Out the DDT & Pray!

More than 25 per cent of North Dakota's farms have been sprayed with DDT for fly control this summer, the first year of the county agent spray program!

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On This Day | New YMCA Planned Downtown

The association has bought the big site at 1st ave SE and 1st st now occupied by the Windsor hotel and some other businesses catycorner from the new Parker hotel. There they will put

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On This Day | City Pension Takes Off

Under the pension plan provided for Minot city government employees, two employees ahve already retired and several more are near the retirement mark.

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On This Day | 10,000 Trees Planned for Planting

If this work can be kept up on the present rate, Ward county will in the future be well covered with beautiful windbreaks of Ponderosa pine, red cedar

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On This Day | Season of Slippery Sidewalks

The city street department sand-scattering truck got out about 11:30 a.m. and sanded down the intersections.

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On This Day | November 19

On this day Americans heard a President who spoke for us. An Arab leader spoke spoke to Israel. Ford killed a car. In Minot, our editor waxed wisdom. Cars were killing people but not to blame, and the doctors going to war were leaving us short.

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On This Day | Doctor Shortage

The war to date has taken 61 out of North Dakota's 460 physicians, leaving 399 to care for a total population of approximately 600,000. This means there is

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On This Day | Blame the Pedestrians

Pedestrians need to give more careful attention to traffic rules when walking on highways or crossing streets. Parents need to give more attention to where their children walk

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On This Day | Cawing About War and More

When a big North Dakota Democrat said he thought Representative Maas from Minnesota should be shot for expressing his opinion on the way the war is being run

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