It has just been learned that muskrats are a clean, sweet, juicy, palatable meat. The muskrat or marsh hare is found by the millions in the north and there are enough of them killed in Ward county every winter to keep hundreds[...]
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On This Day | The Romance and Brutality of War
It was just like the Germans to behead the first American prisoners taken and place the heads on poles in an effort to frighten the remainder of our army. Germany will not be able to break down the morale of our army[...]
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On This Day | Artistic Advertising
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On This Day | Pig Hunting
Police raided Fred Blood’s place on Second street and “Doc” Burke’s alleged joint on Ward street Saturday night, arresting the proprietors who are charged with “pigging.” [...]Read More... from On This Day | Pig Hunting
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On This Day | How to Attract Settlers
He was one of the earliest settlers in the Mouse river valley and his friends back at Melrose, Minn., wanted him to write a description of the country. This he did, as follows: “No snow in winter and in the spring, you[...]
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On This Day | Dangerous Days
The concussion of the explosion was distinctly felt in the town of Washburn which is situated a few miles west of the mine. No damage was done in the town, however. [...]Read More... from On This Day | Dangerous Days
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On This Day | The Editorials of the Moment
There are now no less than ten states in the union where women vote on equal terms with men. They are Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, California, Utah, Arizona, Kansas, Colorado and Michigan. Besides these there are twenty-one states where women have incomplete[...]
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On This Day | A Bright Future for Minot State
The prophesy of this paper on more than one occasion, when speaking of the normal school located at Minot, was always that it would be a big and a good one, and as far as the normal board has planned the building,[...]
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On This Day | Merry Christmas from The Independent
This is a good old world, and it’s growing better every day. So many reasons why we should all be glad, especially at this particular season of the year. Let’s drive dull care away and make ourselves merry in seeing that someone[...]
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On This Day | Gambling on Love
James and George Belnap, brothers and suitors for the same girl, yesterday played poker to determine which should have a “clear way” to the girl’s affections. James won and last night told the girl, Miss Jessie Peltier, their method of selection. They[...]
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On This Day | Lynching in Williston
Williston, N. D., Dec. 16.—Cleve Culbertson, who murdered Mr. and Mrs. D. Dillon and their thirteen-year-old daughter at the Dillon farm eight miles north of Ray on the evening of Oct. 21, 1913, was taken from the local jail at Williston at[...]
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On This Day | The Citizenship Challenge
To help high school students gain a greater feeling for Democracy and Citizenship, the Veterans of Foreign Wars each year conducts the Voice of Democracy program to encourage Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors in all public, private and parochial high school to think,[...]
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On This Day | It All Starts With Education
Education should be regarded as the domestic issue of the decade. Its aim is to develop every pupil’s ability to live usefully in society and to meet successfully the demands which society has a right to make upon him. Education for individual[...]
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On This Day | Studying the “Multiplier” Effect
Stadig used the “multiplier effect” in his study of income and spending in the Lisbon area. The multiplier effect measures the amount of income re-spent in a community once it has been brought in by one sector of the community such as[...]
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On This Day | Conservation Supported By Ranchers
Good grassland management, good water, added border establishment, good livestock water and good livestock quality cattle. Green Needlegrass are a few of the good conservation grasses for this area. Native species of abundant wildlife is getting more essential for our increased outdoor[...]
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On This Day | State Fair is Officially Minot’s
After months of study and deliberation, the Board of Directors of the North Dakota Agricultural Society made public Monday morning their decision to recommend Minot as the site of North Dakota’s first state fair in 1966. The decision of the board of[...]