If there is anything in your town worth talking about 10 chances to one your own newspaper had a hand in putting it there. If anybody beyond the walls of your burg ever learns that there is such a place as Three[...]
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On This Day | A Fiery Tradition
The two large elevators of the Minot Flour Mill were completely destroyed by fire which broke out at six o’clock Saturday morning. [...]Read More... from On This Day | A Fiery Tradition
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On This Day | Celebrating a New School with World Class Talent
Supt. L. A. White of the City Schools announces the good fortune of the schools and those interested in the opening of the new auditorium on Wednesday, January eighth, in the securing of Maggie Teyte, the great New York soprano, as successor[...]
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On This Day | Counting Only the Votes Cast
Ever since the canvassing board declared the amendments passed, on the strength of an opinion signed by Attorney General Langer, who held that the clause in the constitution required that an initiated amendment to pass must have “a majority of all the[...]
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On This Day | Hard Days for Restaurants
Some of the restaurants in order to catch up have closed for a day or for several days. A number of restaurants that formerly kept open all night, frequently close down at an early hour. Many of them do not open at[...]
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On This Day | The Over Seas Letter
Christmas packages haven't arrived. I don't know whether the mail service is just holding them up until Christmas or what. It will be fun to see what is in them. I wish I could send some pictures thru but they are taboo.[...]
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On This Day | Tin Can Tourists Convene
This "log cabin on wheels" is one of the unique travel homes seen in the new tourist camp at Tampa, Fla, where the Tin Can Tourists of America, a trailer camping organization founded in 1919 opens its annual convention Monday, Jan 16.[...]
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On This Day | North Dakota on the Cutting Edge of Crime Detection
There are at present only 18 polygraphs in the United States, 12 owned by the federal government. They were invented by Prof. Keeler and are manufactured in Oakland, California. North Dakota, Kansas, and California are the only states West of Chicago owning[...]
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On This Day | When We Didn’t Need National Pundits
And the power jag, like Herr Hitler is on. That is the one that leaves a real headache. The trouble is that the rest of the Germans will have the headache and Adolph will be the martyr. [...]Read More... from On This[...]
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On This Day | Looking Forward to 1934
It is interesting and important to learn what folks are thinking about. It is heartening to feel and to know that after all they have gone through during this long period, the American people have shown few signs of bitterness, but on[...]
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On This Day | Getting the Mail Through
After his gasoline had given out, Underdahl, after trying to shovel his car out of a snow drift, walked to the Oen farm, his strength being nearly exhausted when he arrived there. His car had stalled in drifts several times that day[...]
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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[...]