A Chautauqua Challenge To North Dakota Children
The Children s Health and Growth contest at the Coming Chautauqua invites North Dakota families to have their children measured and tested to gauge how they compare with the standard for their age. The contest aims to reveal growth and health factors, with a score card to be published, and follows broader national efforts in growth standards used in Iowa and Colorado.
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North Dakota
Iowa
Colorado
Missouri River Threatens Williston Water Supply
The Missouri River is changing course near Williston North Dakota threatening the Williston irrigation station and the city water supply. Three and a half miles north the river bank has fallen leaving a backwater channel that would carry water away from Williston. Local commercial groups appealed to the U S Army Engineers in Kansas City urging immediate action to stop the change.
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Williston
N. D
United States’ Army Engineers
Kansas City
Quoit Strike Causes Serious Wound for Victor Spence
In Cavalier North Carolina on May 2 Victor Spence was hit on the head by a heavy iron quoit pitched by a boy while he paused to pick up another. The blow caused a deep scalp gash requiring six stitches to close.
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Cavalier
N. C
Victor Spence
Spence
Postmasters Granted Five Days Leave for Jamestown Convention
Government grants all state postmasters five days leave to attend the seventh annual convention of the North Dakota State League of Postmasters in Jamestown on July 22. Officials will attend. program arranged. Leave covers travel and convention days. promises productive discussion on serving the public. Neighbors report Kensal Journal sale talks by local parties with Kensal Journal. Tam Land Company negotiating with another party. Hyde and Lum may sell equipment only. Chas Agnew returns from Portland to manage business interests in town.
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North Dakota
Trubshaw
Kensal Journal
Tam Land Company
Hyde
Lum
Chas. Agnew
Portland
Ore
Burglary Raids North Dakota Firms Prompt Pulp Plant Talk
A Williston burglary raid netted about $400 from Gus Carlson’s tailor shop and A N Kidsness’s store after thefts at a bar meat market. The text notes a High School Commercial Law class survey of local firms and details on the McCanna pulp plant and rising rolling stock orders by Great Northern and Northern Pacific as railroads prepare for a big agricultural movement.
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Kidsness
Northern Pacific
State OF
North Dakota
Valley City
Williston
N. D
Gus Carlson
A. N. Kidsness
Nolan
Northwestern
St. Paul
Great Northern
Omaha
Offici
North Dakota Mutual Insurance appoints Marie Ferguson after Moore resignation
Miss Marie Fergeson has been engaged for the position in the North Dakota Mutual Insurance Company made possible by the resignation of Mrs. Dan Moore.
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Marie Fergeson
North Dakota Mutual Insurance Company
Dan Moore
Portrait of Evelina James to grace Uncle Sam’s money
Miss Evelina James of San Antonio Texas is praised as the likely popular portrait on new Uncle Sam paper money. A congressional committee chose her as the central feminine figure for the currency’s decorative reverse. James, daughter of Mr and Mrs S A James, asked not to publicize the matter.
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New York
Evelina James
San Antonio
Miss James
Jana
A. James
Lincoln Public School Notes Highlight Student Achievements
Miss Minnie Nielson spoke to students Monday and Mr. G Quesenberry of the agriculture department addressed the group Friday. The fourth grade candy sale raised 9.25 for room pictures. An eight grade garden project and an eight graders’ top test scores are noted, with various club and staff activities and a birthday gathering for Miss Bergen and Miss White.
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Minnie Nielson
G. Quesenberry
Agricultural Department
Editha
Lincoln Faculty Study Club
Misses White
Anderson
Larson
Amelia Abrahamson
George Schelin
Mabel Knutson
Harold Olsby
White and Holbrook
The
Lincoln
Earl Collins
Lincoln School
Gertrude Bergen
Eva White
Miss Bergan
Sth
Blanche Carew
Fennes Larson
Aliee Brandvold
Helen ¥Ingen
Rorehild Olshy
Waldo Simonson
Luella Dahl
Martin Gunderson
Emory Bureese
Florence Schoeremsn
Foot Crushed by Coal Car at Tower City
In Tower City North Dakota on May 6 Antonio Velosian Hatch known as a cad bik foot was crushed attempting to block a moving coal car on an incline near the docks. He was taken to the company hospital in Brainerd Minnesota and his prognosis for saving the foot is unknown.
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Tower City
N.D
Antonio Velosian Hatch
Company
Brainerd
Minn
Minot considers armory for fall classes if school delayed
Minot North Dakota May 2 The state permanent school board discussed using the national guard armory for normal classes if the Minot school cannot be finished by October Inspecting the armory they found foundation defects in the main building raising fears it may not be ready for occupancy when the school is to open With pipes installed and many students ready to enroll officials deem it crucial the school opens on schedule.
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McCanna
North Dakota
Si McCanna
Minot
N.D
National Guard Armory
State Penial School Board
Secionl
Witnesses From The Dakotas Hear Gust Anti-Trust Case
More than 400 witnesses from the Dakotas and Minnesota are slated for examination at the government anti trust suit against International Harvester Co. The hearings before Special Examiner Robert S. Taylor of Duluth begin in St Paul in May.
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St. Paul
Dakotas
Minnesota
International Harvester Co
Robert S. Taylor
Duluth
Dr Abbott Expelled From Peace Society
In St Louis on May 5 Dr Lyman J Abbott editor of the Outlook was expelled from the American Peace Society by unanimous vote on motion by Charles Beals of Chicago citing Abbott’s seen writing against peace ideals in Outlook. Officers were reelected and new honorary vice presidents named including Taft Bryan Carnegie White Jones Moore Schoff and Hadley. Mrs Newson arrives from Hollywood for summer in St Louis.
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St. Louis
Lyman J. Abbott
Outlook
Theodore Roosevelt
American Peace Society
Charles EB. Beals
Chicago
Beals
Dr. Abbott
Sale
George W. White
Washington, D. C
Benjamin F. Teuetlood
Arthur D. Call
Jenkin Loyd Jones
Philip N. Moore
Miram Hadley
New Mexico
Edmon Stanley
Wichita
Kau
Ant
Frederick Schoff
Philadelphia
American Mothers’ Congress
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Envy Town
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Tth Bt
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Stacy Mercantile CO
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