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7/25/2013: A citizen-led impeachment committee in Watertown, Dakota Territory, forwarded an arraignment to President Grover Cleveland on this date in 1888. The arraignment issued various charges against the appointment of Louis Church to Territorial Governor of Dakota, and argued for his immediate impeachment and removal. Of course, the fact that Church had been appointed by President Cleveland and was close friends with the President did not bode well for the citizen’s committee.

7/28/2013: If you were listening yesterday, you heard about a townsite called Energy that was …for lack of better words…getting re-energized on this date in 1910. It had been platted before, in 1885, without success.

8/1/2013: As the men of North Dakota rushed off to Europe to aid in the battles of World War Two, others were needed in Ramsey County to help in that year’s harvest. Today in 1944, The Devil’s Lake World reported on two groups that did just that.

8/3/2013: In July of 1917, the State’s Attorney and the Bismarck Chief of Police raided a residence on the outskirts of the city.

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8/11/2013: Esperanto was created in the 1870s as a universal language designed to help international communication. On this date in 1910, the Turtle Mountain Star reported a colony of Esperanto speakers had taken root in rural Stutsman County.

8/12/2013: James LeRoy Iverson, North Dakota’s longest serving inmate, was released from the Bismarck Penitentiary on this date in 2009. At seventy, Iverson had spent more than forty years behind the penitentiary’s walls for killing two Grand Forks women in 1968. His release made national headlines, highlighting the growing number of elderly inmates within America’s prisons.

8/14/2013: In the spring of 1917, Stark County residents were shocked by a double-homicide that took place near Gladstone, North Dakota.

11/26/2012: In May of 1935 the Rural Electrification Administration, better known by its initials REA, came into being to provide electricity to farms and small communities. Besides bringing the benefits of electricity to make farms more productive and add modern conveniences to the farm homes, electricity to power radios reduced the feeling of isolation for farm families. Telephone service, widely available in populated areas, wasn’t available due to the high cost of rural development.

12/1/2012: World War I was at an end, but the shortages it created were slow to recover. Anthracite coal and oil were two of these commodities.