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12/30/2009: A few residents of Jamestown wrote to the Fargo Forum on this date in 1898, relating a practical joke that some in the city had played on a certain prohibition officer.

12/31/2009: A strange story was reported out of St. Paul to the Fargo Forum on this date in 1909. The United States Post Office district headquarters there received a strange and alarming telegram from North Dakota that they hoped to clear up. The telegram spoke of a murder taking place on the far western prairie, in the remote tiny town of Leipzig, North Dakota.

1/2/2010: On this date in 1948, the Fargo Forum reported on a fire at the Nanking home of Lionel H. Lamb, who was then British minister to China.

1/3/2010: W. N. Kennedy, self-proclaimed fortune-teller, was arrested in Bottineau, North Dakota, on this date in 1899 for practicing medicine without a license.

1/6/2010: Following his conviction as a federal felon, Governor William Langer was summarily stripped of his office on July 17, 1934. For ordinary politicians, this would mean the end of their career. But William Langer was not your typical politician. With the ink not yet dry on his conviction papers, the crafty man from Casselton began his political comeback.

1/8/2010: A North Dakota man fell pray to a Minneapolis con man on this date in 1910. The man, Paul Lidden of Belfield, North Dakota, had just arrived on his first visit to the cities when the incident occurred.

1/9/2010: Most people have tried smoking, if even just once-perhaps as a child, sneaking a cigarette from their parents. And when those parents found out-well, it wasn't pretty.

1/14/2010: A meteor nearly five and a half feet in diameter struck the earth near Carrington, North Dakota, on this date in 1910. Making its entry during the early morning hours, the meteor traveled with "tremendous force and speed." Many residents in the vicinity were awake to witness the magnificent display, and news quickly spread throughout the area.

1/21/2010: A horrendous railway accident occurred on this date in 1910 along the Spanish River in Ontario, Canada. Mike Nicola of Max, North Dakota, was a passenger on the Canadian Pacific train, traveling west from Sudbury on that day. Injured during the incident, he was fortunate to survive and tell the harrowing tale of the accident, which left nearly fifty dead and dozens injured.

1/30/2010: The U. S. Quartermaster General wrote to the North Dakota Adjutant General on this date in 1957, recommending a coat of arms to be used in representing North Dakota.