“Come here Watson, I need you” are considered the first words spoken over a phone by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant in 1876. Bell was the first to receive a telephone patent ten years later. Installation of poles and phone wire took a while. By the 1920s, roughly 20% of households ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our communities and the role many of the places we call home played in shaping the nation before, during and after the Revolutionary War. This week we begin in ...

The Minot Lions Club will soon celebrate its 100th year of service in Minot and the surrounding area. One of two distinguished former members of the club includes Alf Fuegelso (b. 1903, d. 2003). Alf became a charter member of the Minot Lions Club in 1926. At age 98 he became the first Lions ...

The earliest surviving issue of a Minot newspaper is that for the Minot Journal from Friday, February 2,1894. The Minot Journal had made its debut on April 27, 1889, at which time George Wilson and Luther McGahan were the joint owners. None of the previous 250, or so, issues of the Minot ...

When I became a good enough swimmer, Mother bought me a season swim pass so I wouldn’t watch Micky Mouse Club and other highly educational shows all day. She dropped me off at Kiddieland pool when it opened each day at noon, then picked me up at 5:00. Occasionally there was reason to ...

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