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12/4/2012: In 1905, the Red Cross received its Congressional Charter in a time of relative peace. Prior to World War I, it introduced programs involving water safety, first aid and public health nursing.

12/5/2012: Basically, it took only a decade to settle the Red River Valley. Fertile land and a strong demand for wheat created an economic whirlwind for growth and development. Millions of bushels of wheat flowed from the rich farmlands of Dakota via the railroads to the mills in Minneapolis and points east.

12/6/2012: Politics in North Dakota has always been an interesting part of our history. In 1918, Miss Minnie Nielson was the successful candidate for the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

12/9/2012: Each spring the early residents of Mandan watched for signs of flooding on the Heart River as it meandered through the southern edge of the city. Eventually, the years of flooding forced the city to request help from the Federal Government in building levees.

12/10/2012: Egbert Roth was born on this date in 1905 to a German-Russian butcher in Hebron. One of his crew members later said, “He wasn’t very tall, slim built. A very nice-looking man.”

12/11/2012: A headline in the Larimore Pioneer simply stated, “A Horrible Story,” and what followed was a gruesome accounting of an event that began with an accident, but grew into a tale of revenge and murder.

12/12/2012: By 1874 Bismarck was booming. The railroad had reached the Missouri only a few years before, and the larger, more substantial buildings were beginning to slowly appear above the clapboard houses, saloons and tents that dotted the landscape to form a town. It took a tough group of men to build the railroad, and Bismarck was at the end of the track.

12/13/2012: Clinton J. Miller was an adventurer. Setting out from Indiana in his mid twenties, he roamed the west following the rumors of gold, first to Colorado and then to Montana. He came to Bismarck from Helena, Montana in 1872 and the following year he was appointed Sheriff by the Burleigh County Commissioners. He was a Mason, a church-goer and was never married. Shortly after he was appointed sheriff, he was selected to fill the post of Deputy US Marshall of Dakota Territory.

12/14/2012: With advances in medicine and sanitation, many of the illnesses that were seen in the early Twentieth Century, such as diphtheria, were being contained and even eliminated. But in the middle of the 1940s a new threat of epidemic proportions emerged that terrorized families and left hundreds of North Dakotans, mainly children, affected by its devastating wrath.

12/15/2012: In the fall of 1900, Sanborn North Dakota farmer Erick Anderson learned that his neighbor, Charles Freiburg, had told other farmers that Anderson was a dishonest man. Not letting the insult go unpunished, Anderson sued Freiburg for slander.