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Newspaper
The Ward County Independent
Location
Minot, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
6
A packed regional clippings bundle reports road woes, injuries from falls and vehicle crashes, a freak calf birth, Elks gathering, a wild west show arrest, engineering graduation, and a boy struck by a car. Also notes grading contracts, town site sales, and political delegate funding questions.
Co-Operators' Herald urges R A Nestos of Minot in the 1916 North Dakota senate race against L B Hanna and P J McCumber. It praises Nestos as a progressive, independent candidate who supports Hughes LaFollette Cummins Borah policies and farm credit reform, postal savings banks, grain grading, and nonpartisan tariff study. It notes his clean, selfless campaign and resignation from a prior office to avoid taxpayer pay while campaigning.
The report covers a range of items from a farmer’s death by bull goring near Carson to the North Dakota Sunday school convention and state amateur shooting champion E G Lemke. It notes a perfume theft case in Minneapolis and new rail safety upgrades by the Northern Pacific with 200 miles of signals. Also mentioned are Det. Gilliday’s deaf mute travelers, flax acreage expansions in Dickinson district, and large cattle shipments through Dickinson led by W R Richards.
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