Dave Seifert

12/9/2007: Sometimes having the most isn’t as important as how fast you are.

12/8/2007: Vernon Hagstad was a real estate broker in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was also adopted.

12/5/2007: As a hobby, collecting autographs has been around for many centuries. Reports from as early as 435 B.C., mention autograph collecting by the ancient Egyptians.

12/4/2007: On this date in 1915, the chartered steamship Oscar II sailed from New York to what is now Oslo, Norway. The voyage was the brainchild of Detroit automaker Henry Ford. Interestingly, the trip had a North Dakota connection.

12/2/2007: Robert Stanley of Devil’s Lake, North Dakota received some interesting advice from his lawyer on this date in 1908.

12/1/2007: Many might be surprised that on this date in 1886, classes began at Tower University in Tower City, North Dakota.

11/29/2007: The Grand Forks Herald reported on this date in 1900 a story of “considerable interest” among the people in Grand Forks. After many “pre-trial rumors”, the victim was finally able to give her side of the story.

11/23/2007: On this date in 1905, the Minot Optic reported that the city was fed up with all of its downtown beggars and hobos. Starting today, the Optic reported, those “hobos” who have exhibited “repulsive features in our city," will be given the “cold shoulder.” These vagrants must “disappear in the immediate future, or will be arrested and made to pay the penalty of the law.”

11/18/2007: On this date in 1894, the Fargo Agricultural College football team won the inter-collegiate state championship. It beat the Grand Forks University team for the second time of the year, by a score of 24 to 4. It was not a game that was won however, without a bit of controversy.

11/17/2007: Emil Krauth isn’t a name most of us would readily recognize. Unless of course, you are a butterfly collector.