I picked up some food items from the grocery store for some work-related videos and paid for them with a credit card. I needed my receipt in order to be reimbursed, so I carefully tucked it into my purse — or so[...]
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Teaching a Generation That Questions Everything
A single question is echoing through college classrooms right now: why. Not as defiance, not as disruption, but as a quiet demand for meaning. Professor Jeff LeBlanc reflects on what it feels like to teach a generation raised on mixed messages; these[...]
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On This Day | Ditch the Throttle and the Bottle This Holiday Season
The throttle and the bottle were the big reasons why a record 609 persons were killed in traffic accidents last Christmas, according to a study made by the National Safety Council. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Ditch the Throttle and[...]
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On This Day | 1956 Oil Production
THE STATE INDUSTRIAL commission has pegged December oil production in North Dakota at 36,699 barrels a day, based on anticipated market demand. November’s production quota was 34,699 barrels a day. Market demand in December [...]Read More... from On This Day | 1956[...]
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On This Day | Bucking the Current Dairy Trend in the Past
How three Ward county brothers, unable to find more land, raised income on their home farm by switching from beef and grain farming to dairying is told in this story as it appeared in [...]Read More... from On This Day | Bucking[...]
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On This Day | The Full Cost of Car Dependence
The North Dakota death toll has been raised by five to bring the total to 138, just 21 below the figure of last year at this same time. [...]Read More... from On This Day | The Full Cost of Car Dependence
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On This Day | An Iconic Eatery Assumes Its Place
Folks who have to eat out or who like to escape meal getting or dish washing occasionally have another spot in Minot where they may do just this — eat! [...]Read More... from On This Day | An Iconic Eatery Assumes Its[...]
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On This Day | Before it Was the Dam Yacht Club
The Riverdale Boat Club has adopted a project of assistance to the growing number of small craft operators who take their vacations sailing up and down the Missouri River. The chief task involved is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Before[...]
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On This Day | Bill of Rights Day is Coming!
In issuing the proclamation, Governor Davis emphasized that it is our right and duty to strive toward the fullest application of our paramount rights — freedom of speech, press, assembly, association and religious worship; [...]Read More... from On This Day | Bill[...]
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On This Day | Dam Good for Population
During the peak of construction in 1954 Riverdale’s population reached approximately 4000 persons. It has been announced that the Government will have a need for the facilities of Riverdale until the construction work is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Dam[...]
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We Think We Love Driving (But We Don’t)
A growing body of research suggests our attachment to driving may be more emotional than practical. A new analysis argues that reluctance toward self-driving cars stems less from genuine love of being behind the wheel and more from fear—fear of losing control,[...]
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On This Day | The Assumption That Drove Us Here Today
The county, the state, the nation must begin from the premise that the flexibility of automotive transportation is of such great use time-wise and dollar-wise and pleasure-wise in the moving of people and material [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Scaling the Auditorium To Fit in the Purse
The plans Ellerbe has been working on call for, at the committee’s prior request, a building 176 x 239, made of concrete blocks, with no floor except gravel in part of the building, with [...]Read More... from On This Day | Scaling[...]
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On This Day | Local Pancake Mix
Makes delicious, western style pancakes quick and easy. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Local Pancake Mix
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On This Day | On The Radio
7:00 News 7:10 Weather Roundup [...]Read More... from On This Day | On The Radio
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On This Day | The Precursor to Media Mergers
Radio station KLPM, Minot will join the network of the American Broadcasting co., (ABC) on January 1, 1953. This was announced today by John B. Cooley, senior partner of the Minot Broadcasting co. which [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]