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12/3/2003: Today we pick up the final installment in our 3-part series about Helen Smith of Wimbledon, who won 1st prize from the Dakota Farmer for her article on living without a hired girl

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12/5/2003: In 1881, a 21 year-old bachelor named Irving Gardner headed to Hope, North Dakota, to homestead. As he later wrote, he was unprepared for what lay ahead of him.

12/10/2003: On this date in 1948, Lieutenant George F. Gorman wrote a letter stating, “... the Air Materiel Command has issued orders classifying the information as Secret. And this makes it a General Court Martial to release any more information. The Command has asked that my commanding officer and myself be court-martialed for releasing what information we did .”

12/12/2003: Today is the 70th birthday of one of the world’s most famous pop artists, James Rosenquist.

12/11/2003: On this day in 1914, a Bottineau prisoner was raising money, so his body wouldn’t be used for science.

12/13/2003: Edwin Ladd was born on this date in 1859. He was one of the first chemists at the North Dakota Agricultural College and later became president of the school.

12/15/2003: If you watched the World Series this fall, you saw a player named Rick Helling pitching for the winning team, the Florida Marlins. Rick grew up in Lakota, and today is his birthday.

12/18/2003: On this date in 1890, the government was trying to sort out what had happened three days earlier when Sitting Bull was shot dead at dawn.

12/30/2003: It was on this date in 1797 that David Thompson arrived at the Knife River villages of the Hidatsa Indians near present-day Stanton. Thompson had tremendous endurance, covering more than 55,000 miles during his life-long explorations. He was also outgoing, somewhat homely, godly and intelligent, with black hair and ruddy cheeks.