According to the story handed down for hundreds of years, the old Aune farm in Norway was unoccupied for a hundred years or more. Away back in the 13th century they had the “black [...]Read More... from On This Day | Old[...]
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On This Day | Long Tradition of Chasing Industry
The proposed building of the $400,000 oil refinery at Minot, appears to have been indefinitely held up due to the refusal of a number of Montana independent oil producers to sign five or six [...]Read More... from On This Day | Long[...]
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On This Day | Local News of 1938
An electrician, Clarence Nyre, was doing some wiring in the house, when he discovered the pouch and some letters it had contained between the inner and outer walls of the building, it was not [...]Read More... from On This Day | Local[...]
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On This Day | Langer Repudiated by NPL
They charged that “from the inception he has attempted to build a personal political machine; has inaugurated an autocracy alien to the principles of the Nonpartisan league, and has perpetrated an outrageous extortion in [...]Read More... from On This Day | Langer[...]
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On This Day | Not Yet Ready to Mix Races
Jos. Valentine, colored and Amy Kombeitz, a white woman were found in an apartment in southwest Minot Sunday night and taken to the police station. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Not Yet Ready to Mix Races
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On This Day | Rate Adjustment Requested
As a result of action taken by the Minot city council last night, a complaint is being addressed to the state board of railroad commissioners requesting an adjustment by that body of the rates [...]Read More... from On This Day | Rate[...]
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On This Day | Strange Craft
Theres the boat of the queer “Flying-Dutchman”; Theres “Leviathan”, queen of the seas, And the “Mayflower”, “Half-Moon” and “Clermont”, Were ever more famed boats than these! Yet, far stranger than sail-boats or steamer, As [...]Read More... from On This Day | Strange[...]
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On This Day | Long Before Wheels on the Shovels Turned
All doubt of the engineering feasibility of the Missouri river diversion project was dispelled this week when Kansas City consulting engineers reviewed the plans, with minor alterations, and approved the entire project. Their report, [...]Read More... from On This Day | Long[...]
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On This Day | Tragic Need for Hunter Safety Training
Alvin and Gus Skurdal told authorities they saw only a small speck in the haystack, and believing they had come on a prairie chicken fired at it. Discovering they had shot the youth, the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Tragic[...]
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On This Day | Boy Scouts Prepare Them Well
Robert, who is a Boy Scout, applied first aid to himself, and covered each wound with adhesive tape. He then walked home about a mile, and did not tell the members of his family [...]Read More... from On This Day | Boy[...]
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On This Day | Measuring the Mouse
The government water gauge on the Mouse river near Sherwood is being replaced by a steel-framed cement automatic gauge tower, 25 feet high and five feet square. Apparatus located in the top of the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Measuring[...]
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On This Day | Big Anniversary for First Lutheran Church
Six pioneer men of the congregation which was organized in 1884 were guests at the meeting. A feature of the program was the hauling of six small covered wagons by Boy Scouts, each bearing [...]Read More... from On This Day | Big[...]
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On This Day | Better Keep Politics Out of Government
The warning was issued at this time it was said, because of rumors that a certain political faction intends to send out a general order to all employes to attend a state-wide political meeting [...]Read More... from On This Day | Better[...]
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On This Day | Business is Booming Just Before the Bust
When the Northern Produce Co. began business in Minot in 1913, the total output of butter in the city was not more than 150,000 pounds a year. Today the industry has grown to such [...]Read More... from On This Day | Business[...]
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On This Day | Fighting for Power over Tariffs
Under the old provision the president was empowered upon recommendation of the tariff commission to make changes in the tariff rates up to 50 per cent of the duty imposed by the law. This [...]Read More... from On This Day | Fighting[...]
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On This Day | Who Holds the Power to Stop Housing
The zoning ordinance states plainly that apartment houses shall not be located in Eastwood park. The Board of Adjustment desire to know the limitations of their powers. It is reported that efforts are to [...]Read More... from On This Day | Who[...]