This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Bemidji Pioneer
Location
Bemidji, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1972
Page
3
Public notice and tips for parents with preschool children. Connie Simonson offers free bi monthly newsletters via County Extension Office Bemidji. Nutrition notes discuss fruits vegetables and hot dogs storage and a nursing concerns.
Plans are complete for a nationally approved quarter horse show at the Beltrami County Fairgrounds Bemidji on Sunday August twenty. Show manager Garwood Knutson Route 1 Poposky says 30 classes will be offered including 20 age group classes to crown top horses. Judge Weldon Rogers from Springfield Missouri will preside with halter events at 8 a m and 12 other features including AQHA barrel races and pole bending starting at 1 p m. The event is sponsored by Region 9 10 Minnesota Quarter Horse Association led by President Richard Pollick Thief River Falls with Everett Solheim Crookston as vice president Dorothy Franklin Crookston as secretary and Lyle Burchill Thief River Falls as treasurer.
U S senatorial candidate Tom Griffin of the DFL is cycling a 1000 mile Minnesota route. He started from North St. Paul on Aug 8 using back roads to avoid heavy truck traffic on U S Highway 61. He aims to meet voters, discuss issues, and see farms and towns up close.
Hennepin County Attorney George Scott suggested a Florida abduction book may have inspired the Virginia Piper kidnapping. He noted similarities to the 1968 Mackle case including ransom delivery, staged stops, and a wooded confinement, while Mackle perpetrators were later captured.
Rep. Bob Bergland announces an August recess tour of Minnesota's 7th District with 13 meetings across Moorhead Baudette Walker Detroit Lakes Ada Warren Hallock Fergus Falls Breckenridge Wheaton Elbow Lake Glenwood Long Prairie and a Aug 22 VFW smorgasbord in Bemidji. Most talks, at courthouses, urge residents and officials to bring Social Security FHA or project numbers for help with federal agencies.
Patricia and Tom Crawford married August 2 and work together for Model Disposal Co. in Chatham Township hauling municipal trash. Patricia drives the 10 speed truck and helps load refuse six days a week, finishing Tom’s shift earlier.
On August 25 at 1 30 p.m. Camp Wichingen hosts a 700 acre forest land dedication as part of National Boy Scout Tree Farm Day. Across Minnesota six thousand five hundred thirty one acres join thirty one thousand four hundred seventy one other farms in the American Tree Farm System. Owners commit lands to timber crops and multi use forest benefits inviting all scouts and the public. Camp Wichingen lies 15 miles south of Hibbing on Highway 73.
Forty two farmers sold 721 piglets at Northome on August 15 with an average price of 22.80 dollars. Prices ranged 19 to 25 dollars, 35 pound pigs at 24 to 24.50 dollars. Next sale set for August 29. Representative sales included 23 cross 38 lb at 23 dollars, 60 York cross 35-40 lb at 24 dollars, 10 Hamp cross 40 lb at 23 dollars.
Bids totaling about 3 million dollars will be opened by State Highway Commissioner Ray Lappegaard at 9 30 a m August 25 in the cafeteria of the state highway building in St Paul. Projects include automatic traffic recorders on CSAH 30 Blackduck CSAH 72 Park Rapids CSAH 50 Halstad and CSAH 44 Ada with work beginning September 25 and finishing within 25 working days. Cass County work at Cass Lake rest area on Trunk Highway 2 involves landscaping and tree planting with 27 shade trees 13 evergreen shrubs and other plants. start September 25 with completion by June 1 1973 except for plant establishment.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.