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On This Day | In Sore Need of a Crossing

As this city grows more metropolitan, the fact seems to impress itself more forcibly on the minds of our citizens, that the Great Northern should establish a crossing over its tracks that the people [...]Read More... from On This Day | In[...]

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On This Day | Local Mill Churning Out Flour

The Minot mill, ever looking ahead to increasing business, will institute an important change in a few days, running night and day. The mill will then be able to turn out 200 barrels of [...]Read More... from On This Day | Local[...]

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On This Day | Knocking the Knockers

We had a little snow in September. What country is there that has not had an occasional drawback? These knockers fail to state the good points regarding the country. They do not tell that [...]Read More... from On This Day | Knocking[...]

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On This Day | Care Required in Choosing Curriculum

We noticed in looking over one of the grammar school geographies, which we are sorry to state is commonly used in the schools of this state, that North Dakota west of the 100 meridian, [...]Read More... from On This Day | Care[...]

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On This Day | Will it Be You

Efforts to halt the tragic rise in traffic fatalities, which really got underway when 30 persons were killed in June, have been increased from all angles and yet the slaughter and maiming goes on, [...]Read More... from On This Day | Will[...]

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On This Day | Screen Time Solution Arrives

The Romper Room school, a complete kindergarten on television, features Miss Kay, as teacher, and five or six local youngsters who attend school for a two week period. While these youngsters learn and play, [...]Read More... from On This Day | Screen[...]

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On This Day | An Old Approach to Economic Development

Governor William L. Guy, Chairman of the North Dakota Economic Development Commission, studying a map of North Dakota showing the location of 77 Community Betterment Committees. [...]Read More... from On This Day | An Old Approach to Economic Development

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On This Day | Troubled Waters Ahead

In our feeble way, in contradiction to what others are saying, we are trying to point out that we do face a danger (in America) from the communists. If the reds threaten Asia, Europe [...]Read More... from On This Day | Troubled[...]

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On This Day | Virtuous Opinions Protect Ugly Opinions

I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly, guaranteed by the First Amendment, must be accorded to the ideas we hate or [...]Read More... from On This Day | Virtuous[...]

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On This Day | Hammer on High Third Starts to Drop

Pointing out that the sale of liquor without a license, and in an establishment where food is sold, constitutes a violation of state law and city ordinance, Nedrud asks that the operators of the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Hammer[...]

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On This Day | Our Lady of the Prairies

Hand-carved statue of Our Lady of the Prairies carried in procession during novena of pilgrimages at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Prairies, Powers Lake, N. D. Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus [...]Read More... from On This Day | Our[...]

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On This Day | Our Ukrainian Connection

THE DAKOTA TERRITORY in the years between 1885 and 1894 is the setting of “The Land They Possessed,” a novel by Mary Worthy Breneman, published Sept. 18, by The Macmillian Company. During this period [...]Read More... from On This Day | Our[...]

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On This Day | Brewing Beer Stirs the Local Economy

What Farm Crops Go Into a GOOD Glass of Beer? When you think of beer—refreshing, good-tasting, the beverage of moderation—think also of its economic importance to the nation and to the Dakotas, through the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Brewing[...]

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On This Day | Sewage Lagoons Are Safe

The report states that the Dakota lagoons are effective sewage treatment facilities. It says the use of stabilization ponds as a method of sewage treatment has become increasingly popular in the Dakotas. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Sewage Lagoons Are[...]

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On This Day | State Park is Attracting; Change Takes Time

State Park south of Mandan totaled 4,427 this year through Sept. 1, including 51 visitors from foreign countries, 134 from Canada and 2,757 from North Dakota. [...]Read More... from On This Day | State Park is Attracting; Change Takes Time