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Esperanto in the US, 1910 11 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
The 6th World Congress of Esperanto, held in Washington D.C. in August 1910, had reached its peak with an address by the language’s creator, Ludwig Zamenhof, on August 15th. Entitled “Lando de Liberec...
Secession And The US 17 Jul 2013 | 05:23 pm
That cool cat up there is “Wild Bill” Langer, voting in the 1940 election that would send Mr. Langer to Washington. Nothing was ever easy for William Langer: when he got to Washington, Congress ref...
Amenia, ND, 1880s. 15 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm
If you head north on Highway 18 from Casselton, on your way to Arthur and Hunter, you’ll pass by the little town of Amenia. You might not even notice it: the highway takes a bend to the east, and a t...
The Steamboat Montana 5 Jul 2013 | 05:24 pm
My Dakota Datebook today tells the tale of the Wreck of the Montana. In June, 1879, a tornado hit the boat landing at Bismarck, wreaking havoc on the steamboats moored there. Three were tied up; t...
Gandhi SHRDLU 25 May 2013 | 07:36 pm
I found this compelling article in the 18 June 1931 issue of The Beach (N.D.) Advance: It reads: SHEDDING NON-ESSENTIALS All India is gossiping over Mahatma Gandhi’s unprecedented action in laying as...
Horsepower, 1884 7 Apr 2013 | 09:24 pm
As I was doing my usual reading of old newspapers I ran across this advertisement. Ads for agricultural implements aren’t unusual, but this one in a May 1884 issue of the Bismarck Tribune caught my ey...
The Rusk Auto-House, 1915 24 Mar 2013 | 04:36 am
One of the things my Wifey likes about me is that I geek out over weird things. A few summers ago, while we were cruising rummage sales around Fargo, I started to geek out over a small building in an...
The Cunningham Sanitarium, 1920s 10 Mar 2013 | 12:00 am
What is it — an oil tank? A spacecraft? A nuclear reactor? In 1928, this was the cutting-edge in medical technology: The Cunningham Sanitarium. Dr. Orval J Cunningham was experimenting with the use of...
Meet Katy High, 1963 18 Dec 2012 | 01:56 am
Do you know Katy High? Here she is, in 1963, with a big sash around her shoulders so she doesn’t forget her name. Sorry for the large image; that’s the nature of Miss Katy High: Katy High is not ac...
Mails By Electricity, 1890 6 Nov 2012 | 01:58 am
Oscar was so close with his 1890 invention of “electric mail” process, but yet so far: To Send Mails by Electricity. Oscar Kleinsteinber, superintendent of the police alarm and telephone system of Mi...
