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On This Day | City County Cooperation

The Ward county commissioners, in session Tuesday at Minot, have informally approved a proposed central city-county identification bureau. [...]Read More... from On This Day | City County Cooperation

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On This Day | Oil Exploration Yields New Field

A massive new oil field, discovered in northwestern North Dakota, has had geologists expressing favorable opinions over the state. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Oil Exploration Yields New Field

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On This Day | Fall Shopping Hours Extend Into Evening

Minot evening shopping hours will go into effect on October 3rd, the first Thursday in October. The retail merchants division of the Minot Chamber of Commerce, at a special meeting last week voted to [...]Read More... from On This Day | Fall[...]

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On This Day | Presidential Whistle Stop in Minot

President Harry S. Truman will speak in Minot September 29 from 5:05 to 5:35 p.m. from a Great Northern railway train while on a tour in behalf of the Democratic party in the November [...]Read More... from On This Day | Presidential[...]

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On This Day | Different Era, Same Traffic Projects

Minot city council by an 8-5 vote September 15 adopted a planning commission report recommending improvement of US 83 in Minot from 11 ave NW to 11 ave SW and on the viaduct, and [...]Read More... from On This Day | Different[...]

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On This Day | We’re At War… With Skunks

Warfare between Ward county skunks and Ward county farmers has reached the point where some skunks rush up to the roadside, flip around and spray the passing farm trucks, and some Ward county farmers [...]Read More... from On This Day | We’re[...]

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On This Day | Oil Rising on the Prairie

The state is now, in one year since first discovery of oil, one one-hundredth of the way to its supposed maximum in the Tioga area of 5,000 oil wells producing 200 barrels a day. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Oil[...]

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On This Day | Time to Pay Prosperity Forward

After 10 years of prosperity unparalleled in North Dakota’s history, it is time for us, the people of the community of North Dakota, to band together a part of our wealth to make some [...]Read More... from On This Day | Time[...]

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On This Day | It Did Come to Bypass

Probably none of these things may ever come to pass, and certainly nothing will bypass Minot. Minot, given even an alternate-route movement if it were intelligent, would occasion vast opposition from those in Minot [...]Read More... from On This Day | It[...]

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On This Day | Auditorium Under Construction

Sketch by Ellerbe architects of new city-county auditorium and war memorial building and recreation center now being built in Minot, one-third of cost being furnished by $250,000 revenue from county war memorial special tax. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Auditorium[...]

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On This Day | Community Theater Getting Going

Minot Community Players, popular professional drama group now in its third season, met Monday night and set Oct. 12 as the date and Bohemian hall north of Minot as the site for their first [...]Read More... from On This Day | Community[...]

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On This Day | A Divided Time

Having the fortune to be chiefly occupied with words written on paper day in and day out, it is the editor’s good fortune not to mind words being misspelled. But that one word, wiener, [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]

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On This Day | Pheasants Go Into Hiding

Pheasants throughout the state are getting quite a chuckle out of this, since we know that the reason the hunters, mailmen, key farmers and other humans are having such a terrible time finding pheasants [...]Read More... from On This Day | Pheasants[...]

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On This Day | Polio Season Comes in Mild

However this summer one new county was added to the unit territory, Bottineau, and last week the authorities there reported to the state government that there have been 34 mild cases of polio in [...]Read More... from On This Day | Polio[...]

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On This Day | A Regional Community Effort!

The individual rooms will be furnished as projects by various church organizations in the 100 mile radius. A ladies aid that desire to provide furniture for a room will thus donate about $300 to [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]