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On This Day | The Sales Tax Question

The proposed sales tax measure on which the voters of North Dakota are to cast their ballots at the special election of Sept. 22 is deserving of the closest study, for if it passes [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]

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On This Day | The Promise of the Penitentiary

But the fact remains that most people misunderstand the purpose and object of prison service. While it is true that criminals are sent to prison to be punished, the main object is to bring [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]

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On This Day | Making Trucks in Minot

The Westlie garage, general dealers in the products of Henry Ford found that it was impossible to supply the demand for trucks from the usual channels, hit upon the idea of purchasing the engine [...]Read More... from On This Day | Making[...]

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On This Day | Times of Travel in Changing Times

Leaving the Port of Minot at 8:30 o'clock in the morning, we landed at the Bismarck municipal landing field just one hour later. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Times of Travel in Changing Times

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On This Day | What It Takes to Deliver the Local News

More than 75 members of The Ward County Independent staff, correspondents and families and several guests attended the first annual picnic given by the paper for those that work with it, Saturday afternoon at [...]Read More... from On This Day | What[...]

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On This Day | A Local Food Lesson for Any Age

This cartoon is part of an effort to awaken the public to the danger of following the literature and advice of food faddists or fakers when they should depend on a licensed doctor or [...]Read More... from On This Day | A[...]

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On This Day | Stories of Changing Economies

Blacksmiths shoe very few horses any more. The trucks have replaced the horses on highways and in the fields to a large extent. During the past summer, Mr. Sonnenberg has shod only 25 horses. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Stories[...]

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On This Day | Hard Months For Parents

Because August, September and October are the months when infantile paralysis is most prevalent, the following suggestions for care of sick children are given by Dr. J. D. Jungman of Bismarck, director of the [...]Read More... from On This Day | Hard[...]

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On This Day | The Power to Annex (Another Way Minot Grew)

Petitions, the prayer of which was that three suburban additions, Blaisdell-Bird, Garden Valley, and Garden Home subdivisions, be left outside the city limits, were presented to the Minot city commission at its regular meeting [...]Read More... from On This Day | The[...]

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On This Day | Enthusiasm for North Dakota

The good note that they give tongue to now—the one that has more of promise in it than the story of a mammoth crop, itself—is that which tells of their gradual and steady abandonment [...]Read More... from On This Day | Enthusiasm[...]

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On This Day | An Editor’s Perspective on North Dakota

Outsiders, who speak with criticism of North Dakota, have not seen North Dakota—certainly not what I have seen. They have not laid their hands—as I have done—into that rich deep, black, earth, stretching practically [...]Read More... from On This Day | An[...]

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On This Day | Letters to Wisconsin

Three-fourths of the population here are Norwegians, yet you do not hear a word spoken of their native tongue. All use the English language. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Letters to Wisconsin

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On This Day | The Morality of Man

The story of a gay young wife who changed her old-fashioned model husband for a snappy sport “runabout”. Laughs? Nothin’ else but. [...]Read More... from On This Day | The Morality of Man

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On This Day | Dedicating a New Trinity Hosptial

The formal dedication of the new Trinity hospital at Minot next Sunday will be a notable event. The building of this structure at a time when money was not over plentiful reflects the spirit [...]Read More... from On This Day | Dedicating[...]