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On This Day | Fight Against Illiteracy
North Dakota may be well proud of the progress which it has made in the fight against illiteracy. As a result of the campaign which has been conducted in the state during the last
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On This Day | The First Back-to-the-Farm Movement
Young men, who have held good jobs in factories and elsewhere in the east for several years, are returning to North Dakota this spring, to try the more independent life out on the farm.
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On This Day | Traces of the First Settlers
In his pasture, Mr. Llewellyn found several Indian war axes. He found a number of rainbow shaped green patches which indicated that on these spots the Indians tanned the hides of buffalo and other
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On This Day | Checks for Gas With Lit Match
Halvor E. Rostad was quite badly burned Monday morning. While draining some gas out of a car he struck a match. The gasoline was ignited.
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On This Day | Wednesday, February 5th
On this day in 1917, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, which imposed literacy tests on immigrants and barred immigration from much of Asia, reflecting the era’s nativist sentiments. On this day in 1958, a hydrogen bomb was lost off the coast of
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On This Day | Sisters of St. Francis
Olson & Orheim, Minot contractors, have been awarded the contract to build a convent in Minot for the Siters of St. Francis. The structure will cost $30,000 exclusive of the cost of the lot,
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On This Day | Poisoned Peas Kill Twelve at Grafton
IT was not until nearly 48 hours after the party that the poison's fatal effects became apparent. Then, one by one, afflicted members of the gathering, were stricken, the first fatalities occurring Saturday night.
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On This Day | Coloring the Story
The little boy, who later was to commit the most atrocious crime in the annals of North Dakota, played about he Hestikind farm yard. Mrs. Hestikind recalls that he played with the corn cobs
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On This Day | The Lynching
James F. Bannon, 54, who saw his son, Charles Bannon, 22, taken by a mob from the county jail at McKenzie county, early last Thursday morning, to be lynched, was brot to the Ward
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On This Day | Making a Play for the Capital
John Ehr, pioneer Minot citizen, and for many years a prominent banker, real estate holder and farmer, has made an offer of 160 acres of land along south hill with a beautiful view of
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On This Day | The Banana Belt
With the mercury standing at 54 degrees above zero in Minot, and about the same Friday, the balmy weather bids fair to break all records for mildness. The spring-like days continued so long in
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On This Day | The Modern Vikings
Capt. Folgero with his crew of three, Oscar Rones, Harold Lorentsen, and Hans Opsal with a little black kirren yclept Roald Amundson, for luck, sailed out of a little fjord at Gorgen in the
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On This Day | The Hardest Break
That is why the criminal practice has surrounded accused persons with many protections which gall prosecuting attorneys. Because there is so much crime, there is a tendency now to remove those protections. Frank Howell,
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On This Day | The Little Country Newspaper
Oh, little country paper, with your little weekly talks! I like to wander with you down remembered roads and walks.
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On This Day | 1931 Vigenettes
The Russian peasants are being told that if they will only starve long enough the political millennium is sure to arrive. They are in the position of the dog whose master undertook to show
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