John McIsaac, pioneer Scotch farmer of the Lonetree district is tuning up his 155-year-old fiddle in preparation for the old fiddler’s contest which is planned for Friday night, October 11, at the Berthold Fair. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Live[...]
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On This Day | Pulling Each Other Up By the Bootstraps
The relationship between better newspapers and better citizenship has in it much of mutuality. It is easy to say that an improvement in the ethical and political character of the newspaper press will lead [...]Read More... from On This Day | Pulling[...]
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On This Day | Literally Working Like a Dog
Those who have had occasion to visit the fine modern plant of the Minot Steam Laundry, with its scores of up-to-the-minute machines, operated by electricity, could hardly realize that the power for the first [...]Read More... from On This Day | Literally[...]
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On This Day | Beware the Seeds of September!
Angered because his guests declined to eat any more watermelon, August Waullan, 61, shot and killed Edmund G. Motl, 31, Sunday afternoon and wounded Henry Etten, 30, Motl’s brother-in-law and Carl Sonnenburg, 10. The [...]Read More... from On This Day | Beware[...]
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On This Day | Fire Departments Keeping Busy
He dozed a little and when he awoke the heater was ablaze. He grabbed the stove and burned his hand. When he dropped it the oil spilled and at once the whole interior was [...]Read More... from On This Day | Fire[...]
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On This Day | The Realities of a Commodity Economy
There is just one thing for American farmers to learn from this spectacle of Russian wheat being placed on the world market. This is that American farmers cannot compete with Russia in wheat production. [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Thoughts On California
The dairy laws here are very strict, with inspectors galore. They seem to create laws just to give jobs to certain politicians. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Thoughts On California
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On This Day | The Consequences of Choices
Paul Ugstad of Tioga, who was chosen as North Dakota’s brightest boy to compete in the Thos. A. Edison tests, has received a beautiful radio from the famous inventor, who has sent a like [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Season of Snow is Upon Us
The Soo trains from Saskatchewan are carrying hundreds of harvest hands, bound for their homes in the south. A heavy snow fell in southern Saskatchewan Monday. At Gravelburg, west of Weyburn, the snow is [...]Read More... from On This Day | Season[...]
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On This Day | In 1925 Theaters
"Beggar on Horseback" [...]Read More... from On This Day | In 1925 Theaters
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On This Day | High Value Freight Line
A solid car load of silk from Japan consisting of 18 car loads, valued at $8,000,000.00, passed thru Minot Sunday, enroute from Seattle to St. Paul. The train was pulled the entire distance, 1813 [...]Read More... from On This Day | High[...]
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On This Day | The Hypocrisy of Local News
We had a chance today to earn five dollars by resorting to a Chicago ready-to-wear Manufacturing establishment, canvassing agent in this city and county. We have plenty of like offers every month, but they [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Measuring Out-Migration
North Dakota’s loss of population since 1920—10,094 inhabitants, or 2,500 families—is an economic loss to the businesses of the state of more than $6,250,000 annually. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Measuring Out-Migration
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On This Day | The Parker Auditorium!
Dancing, boxing contests, theatrical entertainments and other amusements will be held in the Parker auditorium in the building. The third floor of the building, where the auditorium is, presents one of the most beautiful [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]
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On This Day | Chocolatiers Coming to Minot!
Andrew Ginakes of Fargo, senior member of the firm of Ginakes Brothers, owners and operators of cafes in Fargo and Grafton, arrived Monday to lend his assistance in installing the new cafe which this [...]Read More... from On This Day | Chocolatiers[...]
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On This Day | A Legendary Fall Classic
The stage is all set for baseball’s fall classic. Miller Huggins (left) Manager of the New York Yankees is confident Babe Ruth and his playmates will defeat the St. Louis Cardinals for the World’s [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]