Geo. Valker, until recently of the firm of Valker & Ekman, florists, of this city, has secured a long lease on the Lottie Scofield property south of the Elk property, corner of Main and [...]Read More... from On This Day | Growing[...]
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On This Day | Seeking Adventure Down the River
T. J. Nervine on Tuesday morning for New Orleans in a boat which he built in the last few days in one of the lumber yards. The boat is called the “Bismarck,” and is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Seeking[...]
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On This Day | Opportunities to the North
A petition is being circulated among the business men, asking the commissioners to grade a road from the north hill leading to Ward street. We understand that this will give the farmers an easy [...]Read More... from On This Day | Opportunities[...]
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On This Day | Getting a Handle on Snake Oil Sensationalism
Minot’s Daily Booze Booster still continues to give the breweries and the distillers all the space in its columns that they care to pay. Other interesting advertisements found in the same issue with the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Getting[...]
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On This Day | Wolves in the Valley
Mrs. E. N. Metcalf shot a wolf Thursday with a 22 calibre rifle near the Skinner home down the river. She was fifty yards from the animal and bored a hole through its head. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Wolves[...]
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On This Day | That Dreadful Habbit
One of the women from the red light district acted strangely on the street the other day. She was all right as soon as her supply of morphine [...]Read More... from On This Day | That Dreadful Habbit
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On This Day | The Value of a Boom Town
The total valuation of the real estate and personal property of Ward county is $4,543,514 according to figures secured Thursday by the county auditor. This represents only about 25 per cent of the real [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | He Had to be Jailbreaker
Thomas Allen, alias Stove Pipe Allen, the famous box car thief, escaped from the Ward county jail Monday afternoon about four o’clock and got out of the county on a stock train. Jailer Roller [...]Read More... from On This Day | He[...]
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On This Day | Roosevelt Ranch Sold
It is situated at what is known as the “Chimney Butte” crossing on the Little Missouri river, its name arising from an immense scoria butte which towers high above its fellows at the river [...]Read More... from On This Day | Roosevelt[...]
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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 | Speaking up for Free Press
There is probably not another single medium of communications so inextricably entwined with the maintenance and perpetuation of our American ideal and idea of a free people in a free society, as the medium [...]Read More... from On This Day | Speaking[...]
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On This Day | Time for a Name Change
The appointment of Christensen was announced by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nasset, co-chairmen for the statewide committee which is working to change NDAC’s name to North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Time[...]
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On This Day | Making Noise at the New Air Force Base
MINOT AFB, N.D., October 6 — With supersonic F-106 fighter-interceptor now operational 24 hours a day at Minot Air Force Base, the Sound of Security—the sonic boom—is apt to be heard most anytime. The [...]Read More... from On This Day | Making[...]
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On This Day | Praise for Presidential Debate
We thought the presidential candidates’ third television debate the best yet. The networks outdid themselves in fair and felicitous arrangements for speakers divided by a continent. The questions were good, helping the candidates to [...]Read More... from On This Day | Praise[...]
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On This Day | What Newspapers Stand For
The Canons define the practices and the aspirations of American journalism, as involving: — “The right of a newspaper to attract and hold readers is restricted by nothing but consideration of public welfare . [...]Read More... from On This Day | What[...]
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On This Day | The Commentary Almost Lost in the Middle
The power grabs that we are witnessing today cannot be compared with the American Revolution. The American Revolution stands unique in history for the very reason that it was not a power grab by [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]