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An Internet search for “gophers” will bring up numerous sports reports about teams with gophers as a nickname, and opportunities to purchase the…

On this date in 1907, the Washburn Leader reprinted an article from the Devils Lake Inter-Ocean warning of a land sale scam. Readers were told that land…

A woman stepped off the train in Oakes, North Dakota, traveling alone, on her way to Jamestown. Her name was Mary Jane Canary. She was better known as…

Bowbells is the county seat of Burke County, which is bordered on the north by the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Bowbells was founded in 1898 along…

On this date in 1915, the Washburn Leader printed an extensive article about the state of child labor in North Dakota. The article summarized a…

Holiday festivities in Devils Lake in 1922 included many typical events … Christmas services at churches across the city, school Christmas pageants, a Boy…