The announcement that the Minot Choral club will give the “Messiah” on the evening of Dec. 23rd come as welcome news to many hundreds in this city, because the oratorio has never been given in full in Minot before. Many living here[...]
Tag: Minot History
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On This Day | When an Old Place Was New
The new freight depot that the Soo is constructing in this city will be completed by January 25th, and it will be formally opened about that time, with a social party to be given by the local Library Board. This will be[...]
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On This Day | Local Leadership in League of Nations
Dear Mr. Colcord:— It is a long time since I first thought of writing to you and endeavoring to tell you and your readers, if you think they would be interested, of my experiences with, and view point of, the League of[...]
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On This Day | A Bright Future for Minot State
The prophesy of this paper on more than one occasion, when speaking of the normal school located at Minot, was always that it would be a big and a good one, and as far as the normal board has planned the building,[...]
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On This Day | The New B-52s are Coming!
The 4136th Strategic Wing at Minot Air Force Base is one of the first of six SAC units programmed to receive the advanced model of the B-52 Stratofortress, the B-52H, capable of carrying the [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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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 | Harassing High Third
District court jury term opened in Minot Monday with the first case on the docket being a civil case in which the state sued to enjoin Mrs. Mary Jackson to close the Parrot Inn [...]Read More... from On This Day | Harassing[...]
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On This Day | The Burning Burlington Hills
Burlington people are being harassed by a vein of coal on fire in the hillside on the south side of the town. South of that place there is another burning vein of lignite that [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | The Impermanence of Bad Lawfare
However the supreme court decided Tuesday that Mrs. Simpson hadn't had due process of law when she was ordered from her home, and the locks would have to go off until she's had a [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Scattered Across the Plains
Twenty years ago 130 tons of buffalo bones were shipped from North Dakota to be ground up and used for fertilizers. Then the prairies were dotted with the whitened skulls of these monarchs of [...]Read More... from On This Day | Scattered[...]
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On This Day | Gone are the Days
The shack he built to live in was only a little more than nothing covered with tarpaper. His stable was the flimsiest sort. His proudest possession was his blue uniform which he kept mended [...]Read More... from On This Day | Gone[...]
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On This Day | Ward’s Pioneer Years
Thousands of years old, the Souris river valley and Ward county plains are still only 68 years old to the white man. Here as in few other places in the world, the entire life [...]Read More... from On This Day | Ward’s[...]
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On This Day | Hammer on High Third Starts to Drop
Pointing out that the sale of liquor without a license, and in an establishment where food is sold, constitutes a violation of state law and city ordinance, Nedrud asks that the operators of the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Hammer[...]
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On This Day | A Couple of Double Crossers
Angered by the action of the other three members of the board, LaFleur shook hands with Commissioners F. J. Thomas and Acting President A. H. Kurth and called them a “couple of double-crossers.” [...]Read More... from On This Day | A Couple[...]
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Minot’s Plum Valley History
Beneath today’s neighborhoods and highways, the Souris River Valley carries layers of memory—plum thickets, hunting grounds, and the footprints of many nations who once called it home. The naming of Minot’s new Plum River Native Prairie rekindles those stories, even if the[...]
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On This Day | A Simple Beginning for the Russel Mill
Thus, from a simple, one-mill beginning in Valley City, North Dakota, Russell Miller-King Midas has forged ahead to become one of the leading flour millers in the country. Operations extend to nearly all 50 [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]