Prospects for striking oil in paying quantities are so bright out at the Des Lacs Western oil well on the Blum farm near Des Lacs, that all stock was taken off the market the first of the week, with the exception of[...]
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On This Day | Out of the War and into the Petri Dish
The first case of Spanish influenza, known in North Dakota, developed at New Rockford, where a marine, who presumably had not fully recovered from the disease, visited a few days before the original epidemic broke out. The disease became epidemic in less[...]
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On This Day | The History We Should Teach
Dunseith, N. D.—A staunch American patriot, a full-blood of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe, Rising Sun died at his home north of Dunseith on the 10th of December, at the age of 110 years, or thereabouts. No one knows his exact age.[...]
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On This Day | Before The War Called Him Dead and the League Made Him Famous
Howard Huston, one of the most prominent students at the state university, arrived in the city Monday and will spend his holiday vacation in Minot and vicinity. Mr. Huston, who is making a remarkable record as a reader, will give a series[...]
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On This Day | True Crime on the Missouri
What was evidently the funeral pyre of an unknown murder victim was discovered by two hunters near the bank of the Missouri river, in the northwestern part of McKenzie county. [...]Read More... from On This Day | True Crime on the Missouri
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On This Day | Another Old Story That’s Back Again
The committee cleared up its differences relating to militant suffragists, advocates of “sabotage” and forms of violence, by adopting an amendment which provides for the deportation of any alien who at any time within three years after entry, shall be found in[...]
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On This Day | Jim Jams Jemming in Court Again
A great deal of interest is expressed over the state on the third trial of Sam Clark and his partner, Crockard, of Jim Jam Jems at Bismarck. They were indicted by the federal grand jury for matter contained in the magazine and[...]
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On This Day | Crazy or Brave?
The athletic girl has less chance of marrying than she who displays more dependence. A hard featured, wrinkled woman is not the type that attracts the opposite sex. Such a woman may be more independent but she is not enough of a[...]
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On This Day | The Knocker
After God finished making the rattlesnake, the toad and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a knocker. A knocker is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water sogged brain and a combination backbone made[...]
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On This Day | Crazy or Brave?
The athletic girl has less chance of marrying than she who displays more dependence. A hard featured, wrinkled woman is not the type that attracts the opposite sex. Such a woman may be more independent but she is not enough of a[...]
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On This Day | An Old Opinion On What’s Public
If President Roosevelt knows things about members of either house or senate, which show them unfit to represent the people, can he properly suppress such facts? [...]Read More... from On This Day | An Old Opinion On What’s Public
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On This Day | The First Performance of The Messiah?
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[...]
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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 | Hard to Have Fun on the River
Olaf A. Olson, who was charged with obstructing a navigable stream, was found not guilty in district court Tuesday. Olson was defended by Paida & Burke. The case arose out of Olson’s stretching a barb wire across Mouse river west of this[...]
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On This Day | It Pays to Buy Local
Since he made this unwise investment he has learned that he could have bought a similar stove at Conyers’ for $34.00, with a lot of extras included, but minus the freight. There may be some good arguments for patronizing catalogue houses—but there[...]
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On This Day | Mixed Morality
Down in Nebraska several months ago, a boy was sentenced to the reform school for swearing. That sentence has lately been confirmed by the supreme court. From this it may be inferred that swearing is illegal, although laws on the matter are[...]