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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.

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

12/3/2007: Gust Sjoblom of Bismarck wanted to strike it rich, but by 1954, oil and gold were old hat.

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.

12/5/2007: 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.

12/18/2007: North Dakota Collections was an early periodical published by the State Historical Society. From the notes of an article by Grace Greenwood, comes the following peek at life in Grand Forks 135 years ago.

12/20/2007: Each year thousands of children go missing and because of this a system of state-wide, as well as national programs and alerts, have been recently established to respond to these incidents.

12/21/2007: The people in Billings County, in Southwest North Dakota don’t take kindly to juries that return a verdict they might disagree with. In fact, those jurors might just find themselves “hung in effigy” from the “The Hangin’ Tree” in downtown Medora.

12/22/2007: The Fargo Forum reported on this date in 1897 the story of a unique present delivered by train to a Fargo man.

12/24/2007: The War of 1812 produced a string of both American military disasters and victories. Yet two years into the conflict, there was still no clear victor between Great Britain and the United States. As a result, by 1814 both sides agreed to discuss peace terms at a meeting in Belgium.