North Dakota Newspaper
NYE, Gerald Prentice - Biographical Information
NYE, Gerald Prentice, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Hortonville, Outagamie County, Wis., December 19, 1892; attended the public schools; engaged in newspaper work in Wisconsin and Iowa; moved to North Dakota in 1915; publisher of the Billings County Pioneer, and later editor and publisher of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier; unsuccessful candidate in 1924 for election to the Sixty-ninth Congress; appointed on November 14, 1925, and subsequently elected on June 30, 1926, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F. Ladd; reelected in 1926, 1932, and again in 1938 and served from November 14, 1925, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944; chairman, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventieth through Seventy-second Congresses), Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry (1934-1938); president of Records Engineering, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1937-1959; special assistant for elderl ... [Read More]
U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress
The researcher using this list is cautioned that not all newspapertitles held by the Library of Congress are indexed; however, earlyU.S. newspapers often covered areas much larger than just thetowns where they were published. The user is further cautioned that few indexes are complete, and many errors and omissions can beexpected. ... U.S. Newspaper Indexes at the Library of Congress Home Page ... The format of the entry follows that of the Library's printed catalogcard including the classification number and an indication of the holdingsin the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. ... [Read More]
Business Resource Guide - SBA, North Dakota District Office.
SCORE - Counselors to America's Small Business To request a free booklet copy of this Business Resource Guide, contact us at 1-800-544-4674 or by e-mail at north.dakota@sba.gov . Please include your mailing address in your message. Employees - How to Find and Pay Them To effectively manage your small business, you must take the time to find and hire the right people. It can be costly in terms of time and money when care is not taken to properly interview and screen job applicants. To effectively manage your operation, a business owner must apply basic staffing techniques. When setting personnel policies, know the business you are in, your own personal abilities and weaknesses, and try to anticipate how you will deal with the various personnel issues that will arise in the daily operation of your business. Formulate all policies in writing. Employment and training procedures must be established so there is no question as to how things should be accomplished. Your written policy sho ... [Read More]
United States Newspaper Program
The USNP has supported projects in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each project is conducted by a single organization within a state or territory, usually the state's largest newspaper repository. A project's staff inventories holdings in public libraries, county courthouses, newspaper offices, historical museums, college and university libraries, archives, and historical societies. Catalog records are entered into a national database maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and accessible through more than 43,500 dedicated computer terminals worldwide. Microfilm copies of newspapers are generally available to researchers anywhere in the country through inter-library loan. ... [Read More]
Climate of North Dakota
This study of the climate of North Dakota is dedicated to theapproximately 200 cooperative weather observers in North Dakota.Cooperative weather observers come from all walks of life. Amongtheir ranks are farmers, mail carriers, newspaper publishers,housewives, professors, jailors, businessmen, policemen,teenagers and peripatetic septuagenarians and octogenarians.About the only thing they have in common is a genuine interest inobserving and recording the weather; they freely admit thatweather is their hobby. Some families in the state have a longtradition of weather observing, in some cases more than 65 yearsat or near the same location. Some individuals still observingand reporting the weather have been weather observers for morethan 40 years at the same location and they are enviously eyeingthe record of nearly 60 years. And so to the cooperative weatherobservers, who give gratuitously of their time, we humbly say"thank you" to them for their generous assistance inmaking th ... [Read More]
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