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On This Day | The Teachers are Coming!

When 3,500 North Dakota school teachers convene in Minot for their North Dakota Education association convention Oct. 21-22-23, they will find an outstanding group of speakers and entertainers, and an unusually large number of [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]

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On This Day | Advice for Eduators

We have an idea to offer the teachers, and that is that they persuade communities to have a Back-to-School Day once annually. At such time, each adult would be required to spend one day [...]Read More... from On This Day | Advice[...]

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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 | Gone Are the Days Part II

However, while the worm may have turned slightly, it still has a long way to go before Minot’s merchant class could grade 90 per cent on a scoreboard designed to test whether they are [...]Read More... from On This Day | Gone[...]

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On This Day | Zoning Goes Rural

The Ward county commissioners, responding to a request from the Minot city council, plan to ask the Ward county legislative delegation to the state legislative assembly in January to push through a new law [...]Read More... from On This Day | Zoning[...]

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On This Day | The 19 Hand Plays The Empire Theater

Saw the new Empire theater in Minot last week, and enjoyed the picture very much. Wondered why it wouldn’t be possible to put that kind of money in schools. Maybe we lack foresight. [...]Read More... from On This Day | The 19[...]

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On This Day | Shipping Out The Local Food

IT HARDLY SEEMS POSSIBLE in this state where eggs are laid fresh, shipped to Chicago, stored for a year, sent back to be purchased by long-suffering fried egg eaters, but in Washburn two stores [...]Read More... from On This Day | Shipping[...]

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On This Day | Opinions on American Girls

When asked about American girls, Ivan said he thought they are spoiled. When asked to explain further he said they had too much independence and broke away from the family too soon. Otherwise they [...]Read More... from On This Day | Opinions[...]

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On This Day | Minot Oil Progress Week

NOW THEREFORE, I, H. C. Kiehn, Mayor of Minot, do hereby proclaim the week of October 16th to 22nd, inclusive to be MINOT OIL PROGRESS WEEK and to direct the attention of our citizens [...]Read More... from On This Day | Minot[...]

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On This Day | What Lies Beneath the Garrison Dam

The S. A. Healy company of Chicago has started construction of the first of seven tunnels which will carry the water from the intake structure of the Garrison dam to the power house. This [...]Read More... from On This Day | What[...]

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On This Day | Our Auto Entitlement Rising

Only the greatest selfishness could give anybody the idea that he has a right to park a car on a busy street. Some of that privilege is going to be taken away, for the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Our[...]

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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 | Economic Development for Self Preservation

The town of Killdeer, which has been without the services of a shoemaker for two years, has one now in the person of Dominic Holowiecki, a Polish displaced person, who fought in the Polish [...]Read More... from On This Day | Economic[...]

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On This Day | Spending on School Lunch

North Dakota will get $200,056 for school lunch program in 1949-50 school year, a reduction of $45,069 over last year because of decrease in state population and increase in income of individuals. Last year [...]Read More... from On This Day | Spending[...]

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On This Day | Here is Good Advice

An informed people can still save this country but the system of creating minorities . . . and offering them something . . . is clouding the view so that folks are informed only [...]Read More... from On This Day | Here[...]