On This Day | Feeding Democracy vs. Autocracy
There is no royal road to food conservation. We can only accomplish this by voluntary action of our whole people, each element in proportion it is needs. It is a matter of equality of
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On This Day | December 18
On this day, the U.S. atoned for an original sin, a 10-month battle ended, and generating electricity went nuclear in Pennsylvania. In Minot, there was interest in a home builders association, a couple was worried about the world ending -- the news told them it would, and an early meme crossed the country.
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On This Day | The Original Rolling Meme
No Beer, no work! No work, no pay! No pay, no eat! No eat, no live!
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On This Day | Contractors Organizing
The columns of the Independent are open for a thoro discussion of the merits of a Home Builders' organization
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On This Day | Sent For in Seattle
It is strange how many really treated the yarn seriously.
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On This Day | Curling on the Rise in Minot, and Why Not
More interest than ever before is being taken in curling. Four or five sheets of ice are being used each evening and all will be used as soon as they are in good shape.
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On This Day | December 17
On this day we took flight, an iconic American family hit the air, and the U.S. began to recognize how wrong we were about internment camps. In Minot, our editor had his nose on a better property tax policy, and the home of the Ironhorse turned ten.
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On This Day | Home of the Ironhorse Turns 10!
If a decade ago, anyone had ventured to remark that Minot was destined to one day become an important jobbing center, the statement would have been taken with a large sized grain of salt.
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On This Day | How to Remedy the Tax Problem
Many assessors have admitted freely that they refrained from raising valuations because they had no assurance that the other districts in the county would raise theirs; and they did not want their district to
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On This Day | Don’t Discourage Investment
Right in Minot, we have examples of unjust taxation. Let a man keep his residence nicely painted, keep the weeds about his premises cut down and grow a beautiful lawn and he will pay
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On This Day | A Christmas Truce
This cruel war may cease before long. The Pope wants a truce during Christmas and we propose a long one. This is our scheme. On New Year's day let the soldiers in all the
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On This Day | Give Till It Hurts
The Russell-Miller Milling Co. is grinding 2,000 sacks of flour that will soon be sent to the starving Belgians. This is the gift of that well known concern to the unfortunate people who are
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On This Day | December 16
On this day, Boston was swimming with tea. The earth quaked in Missouri, and the Germans made one final push. Locally, we were touting monorails, rollerskating wasn't good for women, and the Swedes were suffering from outmigration.
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On This Day | Monorail Monorail Monorail!
The car used was forty feet long, ten feet wide and thirteen feet high. It is said that such a car can easily travel 100 miles an hour in comparative safety.
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On This Day | Alarmed by Outmigration
Sweden is becoming greatly alarmed over the emigration of her sons and an effort is being made to make conditions such they they will not want to leave the old country.
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