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Manitou School
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GhostsofNorthDakota.com
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Wylora Christianson submitted the following photo of Manitou School. The town of Manitou was an early settlement in North Dakota, having been established in 1887. Peak population was 43 residents. This school is all that remains. CLICK PHOTO TO ENLAR
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Announcing our 2011 My Favorite Family Recipe Contest
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Contest celebrates both food and family
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Mainstreetmoments.com is excited to announce our 2011 "Favorite Family Recipe" contest.
Its been a few years since Barbara Myhre of Huron South Dakota had our mouths watering with her first prize entry to our 2008 recipe contest. Babara's recipe f
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Gene Vidal - father of Gore Vidal
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SMALL-TOWN BOY MAKES LIFE INTERESTING
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What do Amelia Earhart, Al Gore, Jackie Kennedy and Gore Vidal have in common? Through complicated permutations of marriages, divorces, affairs, and old-fashioned family relationships, they all interconnect with a young man born 0n the prairie.
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20 Million Dollar Painting Found in Bathgate North Dakota Attic
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"Junk in Attic" was an Original Renoir Painting
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The new owners of residence in town were interested in all the "junk" they found in their attic. One item was a rolled- up piece of canvas that appeared to be an old oil painting. When unrolled, they discovered a portrait of a charming nude which
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Early homes on the prairie - The Sod House
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Life on the prairie for early Nebraska settlers often included living in a sod house, commonly called a "soddie."
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Homesteads and a Sod House - What Was it Like and How Was a Sod House Built?
By Jeanne Hounshell
Life on the prairie for early Nebraska settlers often included livin
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They Survived the Titanic
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One man who lived to tell the tale and ended up living in Onida, South Dakota
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Oskar Hedman, Survivor
Oscar Hedman arrived from Sweden 1905 and settled in Beach, North Dakota. In addition to some routine types of employment, he became affiliated with various land promoters and real estate speculators. At the age of 27 he was
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Vern Miller - Sheriff, Moonshiner, Hit-man
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How did the career of a small-town sheriff from South Dakota promote the creation of the modern FBI? Well, for one thing, he became a gangster.
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The earliest years in Vern Miller’s biography remains unclear. It is reported that he was born in Kimball, South Dakota in 1896. Not much is known about his early years, but he was a resident of Huron, South Dakota by 1914. His life appears ordinar
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Thoen Stone in Black Hills
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In our third and last part of our series on the Thoen Stone, we give carving on rock a go!
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Also see part one and part two
An intriguing question posed in par
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Ward Piggy Lambert - The Gunslinger of Basketball
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HOW A QUICK-THINKING SOUTH DAKOTAN CHANGED BASKETBALL FOREVER
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Deadwood, South Dakota has long been an iconic symbol of the Old West. It ranks with Tombstone, Dodge, and Tucson as encapsulating the hardy, unrestrained, unlawful character of life in the boom towns on the frontier. Indeed, Deadwood as a center o
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Roosevelt and South Dakota
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South Dakota Magazine
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The State Historical Society’s annual meeting last weekend was a Roosevelt-fest. It delved into how the Dirty Thirties and FDR’s New Deal affected (or affects?) South Dakota.
The keynoter, Dr. Margaret Rung, runs the Center for New Deal Stu
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Lets find Rev. Lyn George Jacklin Kelly,
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1912 Murders still unsolved
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Winner, South Dakota has an intriguing, if innocent, connection to a famous mass murder case in Iowa. In 1912, six members of a household and two visiting children were murdered in the middle of the night in the small town of Villisca, Iowa.
The c
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Thoen Stone Investigated Part 2
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Would a frantic survivor attempting to hide from his pursuers, pause, and then take the time to write a message on a piece of stone?
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Also see part one and part three
Would a frantic survivor of a dea
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Snowbound Basketball Tourney 1952
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A COLD YET MEMORABLE HIGHSCHOOL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
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Sometimes lousy weather can create a lot of fun. Residents of Conde, South Dakota still remember the District Tournament of 1952.
South Dakota, like so many Midwestern states, had a state-wide playoff system for boys’ high school basketball. The d
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The Reds Are Coming!
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Remembering a visit from the U.S.S.R in the 1950's
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I think it was in the late fifties. My dad mention that some “Russians” were coming to the area to observe American farming methods and that it might be interesting to get a look at them. Through some contacts at the County offices, he was able to
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Remembering That Infamous Day
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South Dakota Magazine
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By John Andrews
It’s believed that only five South Dakotans who were at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 are still alive, and two of them will be at Deadwood’s Mount Moriah Cemetery Monday for a remembrance ceremony beginning at 11 a.m.
Steve Warren
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Turton Mystery image, 1922
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Origins of image uknown.
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Many of our friends and neighbors are curious about the origin of this very colorful and well crafted image that is painted on an old wooden grain storage building here in Turton, South Dakota.
The gentleman who moved it onto his property died
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Gangsters Lived Here?
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We were in the Kimball, South Dakota area doing more research on the early life of Verne Miller
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We were in the Kimball, South Dakota area doing more research on the early life of Verne Miller (The notorious gangster involved in the Kansas City Massacre) and were tipped by a local resident that in the 1930s a farm northeast of town was a hideout
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Company Cowboys Celebrating 40th
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South Dakota Magazine
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Once upon a time, country bands were a dime a song in the towns and cities of the West. They made a few bucks at rodeos and wedding dances. Life was good.
Unfortunately, DJs and recorded music have put most of our guitarists and drummers out of busi
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Why Zebras Don't Pull Plows
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Why have several large species of mammals never been tamed to do man’s bidding?
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Those massive diesel tractors that one sees pulling equally massive tilling and seeding machines on farms throughout the Midwest make it hard to believe that less than 100 years ago most of that work was being done by horses. One hundred years—a mere
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More Great Games
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In our search for “great games” we have come across two wonderful stories out of Minnesota high school boys’ basketball: Lynd high school’s record in the 1946 State Tournament and Edgerton’s winning the Tournament in 1960.
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It’s important to remember that up until the 1990s all Minnesota high schools competed in a single playoff system. That is, small-town schools had a chance to compete with the huge schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The tournaments were immensely
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Bitterly Cold Remembrances
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South Dakota Magazine
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A small and hardy group riders are braving the bitter winter weather today, approaching the South Dakota/Minnesota border on their way to Mankato.
The horsemen seek continued recognition of the 1862 massacre by mass hanging of 38 Dakota Indians near
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The Greatest Game in Selby Lion Basketball History
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With two minutes and 19 seconds left, Selby Lions shoot five 3 pointers and 4 free throws to win 54-50.
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The following account of the 1988 Region 8 Boys Basketball title was provided to us by the Selby Record as part of our ongoing call for your greatest high school sports memories.
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What's your most memorable high school sports moment?
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help us find the greatest moments in midwestern high school sports history
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During the coming weeks mainstreetmoments.com will be taking a closer look at some of the biggest high school sports moments in the Upper Midwest.
And we need your help!
We would to hear your picks and suggestions for our up and coming storie
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Villisca Remembering the Town and Country Grocery
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Dave Higgins remembrances of his teen age part time job in Villisca Iowa in the 1950's.
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By D.L. Higgins
I was 15 years old in 1957 and one of the town kids who was lucky enough to have a job to put a little money in my pocket. Many of us in town worked at local gas stations, mowed yards or kept our eyes open for any chance to earn a
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Conde South Dakota Nicknames
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What is it about Conde, South Dakota and that peculiar tradition of nicknames? At one time it seemed like half of the town’s male population was addressed by nicknames? Conde must of had the highest per- capita rate of nickname use in the State.
F
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The saga of Oscar Micheaux
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Filmmaker of South Dakota
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The saga of Oscar Micheaux in South Dakota is a fantastic portrayal of one man’s imagination, perseverance, and entrepreneurial energy— one of the best examples that one can find among all the pioneering tales of the Dakotas. What was a black America
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Clyde Willis Rainford 1905-1948
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This is the 3rd in a series of writings authored by Darrel Rainford of Minnesota (1928 - 2005).
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Biography: Clyde Willis Rainford 1905-1948
Clyde Willis Rainford was born in Illinois on July 2, 1905. The records don’t say, but chances are that he was born with the long, lean body and thick dark hair that
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How Things Worked - by Darrel Rainford
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This is the 2nd in a series of writings authored by Darrel Rainford of Minnesota (1928 - 2005).
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Shocking Wheat
The customary method to harvest grain (up until approx 1950 when newer smaller combines became available ) was to bind grain wheat, oats, barley into a bundle with a binder. This machine would cut the stalk and head a
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Frances Klapperich Labrie, A Great Cook
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This is the 1st in a series of writings authored by Darrel Rainford of Minnesota (1928 - 2005).
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Frances Klapperich Labrie, 1877-1960, learned to cook as a young woman when she had a cookcar to feed the threshing teams. She could feed dozens of hungy men without running water in a small kitchen on wheels set in the middle of the field. She made
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Dancin' Man
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Bachelor farmer danced his way through life.
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“The only thing I like more than dancing is more dancing!” This was the refrain that Clyde Raines repeated to hundreds of female dancing partners in eastern South Dakota during the 40s, 50s, and early 60s.
Clyde was unmarried and farmed near the t
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Claremont South Dakota
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Why do some communities consistently excel in Sports
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CLAREMONT, SD Why do certain small towns and communities seem to have a history of success in sports? Pick any area throughout this Midwestern area and one will find examples of athletic achievments that spanned years or even decades in specific comm
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Rose Bowl Running Back
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QUIET BUSINESSMAN PLAYED IN 1916 BOWL GAME
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I was about twelve and devoted to every kind of sport; I played basketball and baseball at every opportunity; I listened to college football; I was a Cleveland Indians fan; I knew the entire roster of the Minneapolis Lakers. So, when one day I overhe
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