Sarah Walker

7/24/2014: In July of 1911, an overnight trip took a downward turn when a Northern Pacific train was held up. It occurred as the train passed through Tower City; three men described as being of medium height and wearing polka-dot handkerchiefs, went through the sleeper cars of the train and systematically woke up all the passengers, held them at pistol-point and robbed them of whatever they could.

7/18/2014: On this date in 1939, the people of North Dakota were planning for North Dakota's 50th anniversary of statehood. A large celebration would be held in Bismarck near the end of August, on the 21st through the 25th. Included in the plans were parades, remembrances of early settlers, and the production of commemorative wooden quarters. The Jubilee's novelty committee also designated an official headgear for the celebration.

6/27/2014: It's just not North Dakota if there isn't any weather-related news. After all, an agriculture-heavy area relies on the elements to aid in the well-being of the crops. Sometimes the weather is good...sometimes it's not.

6/24/2014: In 1874, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still developed the practice of osteopathy, a form of holistic medical care still studied and practiced today. Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, called DOs, train like MDs, but they differ in philosophy and approach to patient care.

6/5/2014: Filing for U.S. citizenship is a voluntary act. However, as it was necessary to be a citizen in order to file for land under the Homestead Act, so naturalization records became a very important part of the history of those settling the Midwest.

5/23/2014: After the atomic bomb was developed during World War II, and the United States began to realize the terrible power, people sought ways to address the threat of nuclear apocalypse – the end of the world as we know it.

5/19/2014: In 1951, President Truman issued a proclamation declaring this date to be the second annual Armed Forces Day. As American soldiers fought in Korea, so soon after the end of World War II, Truman encouraged a celebration of those men and women who "dedicated themselves unselfishly to the service of their country."

4/30/2014: In the late 1940s, an unusual public service campaign was initiated in the form of a train. The Freedom Train was red, white, and blue, and it carried an exhibit of more than one hundred historic documents and items, including the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. The US Attorney General said project had the goal of "combat(ing) alien ideologies and reawaken(ing) in the American people the reverence we know them to have for the American way of life."

4/25/2014: Harry O'Brien and his wife Rosamond Thoe were born and raised in Devils Lake, the children of early North Dakota settlers. Harry attended the Agricultural College in Fargo until World War I intervened. He served with the American Expeditionary Force in France for about two years. Afterward, in the early 1920s, Harry and Rosamond married.

4/23/2014: On this date in 1953, residents of Fargo prepared for the end of a medical era as two doctors who had established the Fargo clinic prepared to retire. Dr. Olaf Sand and Dr. Nils Tronnes, both of Norway, came together by chance. They both studied separately at Oslo University in Norway before travelling to the United States, brining their practice to the land of opportunity.