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On This Day | We Need to Start Making Place

Governor Davis stated that the Community Development meeting will provide community leaders with tools and guilds so that each village or city can build a better community which will appeal to all its citizens [...]Read More... from On This Day | We[...]

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On This Day | Around and Around Again

North Dakota residents may be asked to vote on a proposal to eliminate the household property tax. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Around and Around Again

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On This Day | November 27

On this day, a Pope preached against peace in the Middle East. New Yorkers went parading about for the first time, and we were taken with "Frozen." In Minot, a student was speaking for Democracy, inflation was a hard target to track,[...]

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On This Day | The Voice of Democracy

Democracy will remain true and powerful only as long as you and I care to exercise its freedoms and accept its challenge of responsibility. We, the youth, have tasted the fruits of its harvest [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]

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On This Day | Inflation Math Not Adding Up

Suffice to say that times and conditions have changed and that prices of farm products don't appear to have keep pace with general inflation. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Inflation Math Not Adding Up

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On This Day | This is North Dakota Character

Friendly and warm-hearted with a strong loyalty to the state. He (the North Dakotan) is democratic and has a strong dash of radicalism or liberalism about his thinking. He is ready to accept a [...]Read More... from On This Day | This[...]

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On This Day | November 26

On this day in Egypt a boy king was revealed; Hollywood was looking at you, kid, and France was looking at all of us. In Minot, property taxes were still higher than today. Speeding was $500, and addiction was getting some attention[...]

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On This Day | Editorial Flexing

"Nevertheless, blind Republicanism serves as little purpose as blind faith in Thatcher wheat." | "These thousands of beer bottles, beer cans, and whiskey bottles lying in the ditches in that one mile are a [...]Read More... from On This Day | Editorial[...]

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On This Day | 1953 County Property Tax Rates

The Ward County Independent, November 26, 1953 Why We Chose It Property accessed on 100 per cent valuation as worth $2,000 is charged $141.60 in taxes if the total mill levy in a governmental subdivision is 141.60 millls. Today’s Happenings! SavorMinot’s guest[...]

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On This Day | Recovery Invented

A four-point plan of action to be followed in combatting alcoholism in North Dakota was adopted at a meeting of the state commission of alcoholism. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Recovery Invented

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On This Day | November 25

On this day the British finally went home, Washington went after media, and we looked into a scandal. In we had dam news, and it wasn't about the property taxes that were much higher than they are are today. [...]Read More... from[...]

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On This Day | Property Taxes Property Taxes

The total tax levy in Ninot this year is 139.36 mills, which means that for every $2,000 worth of property the tax assessor lists you at you must pay $139.36 in January. Minot is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Property[...]

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On This Day | The Dam News

The 68,000,000 cubic yard of dirt on the Garrison dam embankment was dumped on November 4, completing the huge earth fill project which began October 4, 1947. [...]Read More... from On This Day | The Dam News

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On This Day | The Aims of Modern Education

With the social position of the average college student becoming more and more an an enigma to the general public, it might be helpful to discuss some of the aims of modern education. [...]Read More... from On This Day | The Aims[...]

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On This Day | November 24

On this day we evolved, a man with money jumped and started a search; we found Lucy. In Minot, our editor was praising some national government reform and cost cutting, City Council was considering liquor licenses, and it was time to clean[...]

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On This Day | A Cost Cutting Congress

From the ramparts where we watch, it appears that a fresh breeze is sweeping through our government, for this was not the only governmental agency that was killed or curtailed by the last session [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]