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1/30/2005: Mose, a community northwest of Cooperstown, was founded in 1899. Its first name was Florence; its second was Lewis. Then, in 1904, it officially became Mose, which was the nickname of a local lumberyard worker, Morris Greenland. The town was tiny – the highest recorded population was about 25 – and, on the last day of January 1954, the post office closed.

2/2/2005: We wanted to air this story on Phyllis Frelich’s birthday, but she’s is a leap year baby, so we decided to run it today. It was on this date in 1981 that she was awarded the Teddy Roosevelt Rough Rider Award.

2/5/2005: The 1921 Minot High School Yearbook offers this unusual tidbit: “The Alumni Association equipped a modern Dental Clinic for the schools in 1919. Here, free service has been rendered to children deemed worthy and to others at nominal cost. At first, clinic work was done voluntarily by local dentists, but the program for the 1920-21 (school year) has been enlarged and put into the hands of a paid operator who devotes three hours a day to the school and includes a campaign of instruction in the grades as well as operative work done. To date, 500 cases have been treated, and defective dental conditions reduced from 90 to 77 percent.”

2/3/2005: Today’s story is about boodlers. Definition: those who obtain money through corruption.

2/6/2005: About this time in 1916, the Steele County Tribune published a story about a young man who installed his own telegraph system.

2/7/2005: There is much interest in architectural preservation in North Dakota these days, so it’s interesting that already back in 1923, there was concern about losing a historic building at the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo. The building was Francis Hall, the second building constructed on the campus. It was built in 1893 at a cost of $17,000 and originally served as a dormitory; it had 28 rooms housing 56 students, along with a dining room, a reception area, and space for the “department of domestic economy.”

2/9/2005: On this date in 1868, a man named Sondre Norheim competed in Norway’s very first national skiing competition.

2/10/2005: “...all support of censorship should be considered as problems of abnormal psychology.” So said Civil Libertarian Albert Theodore Schroeder, who died on this date in 1953. Schroeder was born in Wisconsin in 1864. When his mother, a German Catholic, married his father, a German Protestant, both had been disowned by their parents. This religious intolerance greatly affected young Theodore’s mother and played a large part in who he would become as an adult.

2/12/2005: On this date in 1991, the Senate approved a bill to name the Nokota horse North Dakota’s honorary state equine.

2/14/2005: Today’s story is about Enos Stutsman, the namesake of Stutsman County, where he never actually lived. He was born near the home of Abraham Lincoln’s father in Indiana on this date, Valentines Day, in 1826.