Starting January 2, Manitobans aged 45 and older can self-refer for breast cancer screening—five years earlier than before. The province has hired new mammography technologists, is upgrading equipment across the province, and has expanded outreach to First Nations and newcomer communities to[...]
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On This Day | For a New Year and a Lifetime
A long time ago, Oliver Goldsmith said: "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." We are going to stumble and fall as citizens, as states, and as nations mistakes will be made. The need[...]
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On This Day | Media Literacy In the Schools?
... believes pupils should be taught how to read and study the news in the better class of newspapers. A careful grasp of the dangers besetting government, he holds, can only be had by serious study of the actual developments day by[...]
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On This Day | Looking Forward From 1923
What do you consider one or more of the important things that should be done for the benefit of Minot or the Minot community during 1924? [...]Read More... from On This Day | Looking Forward From 1923
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On This Day | The Light at the End of the War
We ran across a lot of frogs and a cook who could handle them and had a frog leg feed. They were fine and we will encore as soon as we have the chance. Guess the war isn’t over yet, as there[...]
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On This Day | Recurring Themes In This Column
Lieut. Howard Huston, formerly of this city, is now Aide to General Booth, with the American army in France. Lieut. Huston turned down a Captaincy to remain with his general. The Lieutenant writes that he has invested in a Ford and is[...]
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On This Day | Oil Crazy Early
Prospects for striking oil in paying quantities are so bright out at the Des Lacs Western oil well on the Blum farm near Des Lacs, that all stock was taken off the market the first of the week, with the exception of[...]
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On This Day | Out of the War and into the Petri Dish
The first case of Spanish influenza, known in North Dakota, developed at New Rockford, where a marine, who presumably had not fully recovered from the disease, visited a few days before the original epidemic broke out. The disease became epidemic in less[...]
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On This Day | The History We Should Teach
Dunseith, N. D.—A staunch American patriot, a full-blood of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe, Rising Sun died at his home north of Dunseith on the 10th of December, at the age of 110 years, or thereabouts. No one knows his exact age.[...]
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Learn and Watch: Carol of the Bells
You’ve heard it a thousand times—that cascading four-note melody that shows up in malls, movies, and church concerts every December. But “Carol of the Bells” didn’t start as a Christmas song. It started as Shchedryk, a Ukrainian choral piece sent to Europe[...]
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A true story of sacrifice
In March 1920, a 16-year-old girl named Hazel Miner lay on top of her younger brother and sister as a blizzard raged across Oliver County. She kept them alive. She didn’t survive. It’s one of those North Dakota stories that gets passed[...]
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On This Day | Before The War Called Him Dead and the League Made Him Famous
Howard Huston, one of the most prominent students at the state university, arrived in the city Monday and will spend his holiday vacation in Minot and vicinity. Mr. Huston, who is making a remarkable record as a reader, will give a series[...]
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On This Day | True Crime on the Missouri
What was evidently the funeral pyre of an unknown murder victim was discovered by two hunters near the bank of the Missouri river, in the northwestern part of McKenzie county. [...]Read More... from On This Day | True Crime on the Missouri
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On This Day | Another Old Story That’s Back Again
The committee cleared up its differences relating to militant suffragists, advocates of “sabotage” and forms of violence, by adopting an amendment which provides for the deportation of any alien who at any time within three years after entry, shall be found in[...]
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On This Day | Jim Jams Jemming in Court Again
A great deal of interest is expressed over the state on the third trial of Sam Clark and his partner, Crockard, of Jim Jam Jems at Bismarck. They were indicted by the federal grand jury for matter contained in the magazine and[...]
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On This Day | Crazy or Brave?
The athletic girl has less chance of marrying than she who displays more dependence. A hard featured, wrinkled woman is not the type that attracts the opposite sex. Such a woman may be more independent but she is not enough of a[...]