Jim Davis

One hundred years ago, serial stories of the war, such as “Over the Top” as well as Associated Press articles, provided details of life in the front line…

Throughout the first year after America entered the war in 1917, the War Department maintained a strict censorship on the news from France. To keep the…

Early in the war, the newspapers in North Dakota carried casualty lists containing only meaningless names or numbers. But by this date in 1918, that…

On this date in 1918 there was a goat traveling around Fargo, quickly going from one owner to the next. “Get the Kaiser’s Goat” was a unique method for…

In September of 1917, the North Dakota Regiments left the state to the training camps in the East. They found comfort there in the YMCA huts in the large…

In 1918, due to the War effort and a slumping economy, North Dakota was feeling the financial pinch. Millions of dollars were being drained by the war,…

With thousands of American troops now at the front in France on this date in 1918, food conservation had become critical. A new guide was issued which…

With the North Dakota boys now on foreign soil, news from the front was anxiously awaited, but censorship rules had tightened. Most censored items dealt…