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On This Day | The Full Cost of a Duck (Before Inflation)

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Josh Wolsky
Josh Wolsky

NORTH DAKOTA NEWSPAPER editors are now bemusing themselves with calculations on the cost of the first duck of the year for the average hunter. It runs something like this:

November 15, 1951 | Ward County Independent

Why We Chose It

Out of respect for our readers we have neither updated these estimates nor adjusted for inflation. And it seems like a reasonable price, too. Also, we promise not to ever — even for a moment — contemplate the cost of a fish 🙂 Because it’s hard to put a price on the reward at the end of worthy labors. Oil was discovered in North Dakota the next year.

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Josh Wolsky

Josh Wolsky

Developer & Writer @TheMinot Voice, Fan of the Souris River, SavorMinot Advocate. Fortunate to be a 'former' City Council member ;)