Fargo North Dakota Newspaper
Climate of North Dakota
This resource is based on the following source: Jensen, Ray E. No Date. Climate of North Dakota. National Weather Service, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. 48pp. This resource should be cited as: Jensen, Ray E. No Date. Climate of North Dakota. National Weather Service, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Home Page. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/climate/climate.htm (Version 02APR98). ... [Read More]
NCDC: Northern Plains Flooding
Grand Forks Herald Newspaper ... Figure 2 and Figure 3 show trends for the January 1996 through December 1996 and January 1997 through March 1997 respectively. The graphs show the monthly values for North Dakota (Division # 6 - Fargo, ND area). Data plotted include, monthly divisional precipitation along with four Palmer Drought Indices: Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), Palmer Hydrological Drought Index (PHDI), Palmer "Z" Index (ZNDX), and Modified Palmer Drought Severity Index (PMDI). The drought indices indicate the severity of a wet or dry spell. Indices generally range from -6 to +6, with negative values denoting dry spells and positive values indicating wet spells. Note the trend for positive Palmer Drought indices and fairly high precipitation amounts. The data and information on these indices for any of the 344 Climate Divisions in the U.S. can be plotted and then downloaded using our ClimVis system (select "Climate Division data"). ... [Read More]
John Burke
In 1913 he was appointed treasurer of the United States by President Woodrow Wilson and served until 1921. He resumed law practice in Fargo. In 1924 he was elected a justice on the Supreme Court of North Dakota, serving as chief justice from 1929 to 1931 and from 1935 to 1937. He died on May 14, 1937. ... John Burke was born on February 25, 1859, in Sigourney, Iowa. He was educated in local schools and received his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1886. In 1888 he migrated to the Dakota Territory, where he worked as a harvest hand and schoolmaster. He began his law practice in his hotel room and helped publish the town newspaper. By 1889 he was a successful lawyer and was elected Rolette County judge. He later became state's attorney of Rolette County. Burke served in the North Dakota House of Representatives in 1891 and in the state Senate from 1893 to 1895. ... [Read More]
FRB: Beige Book - Minneapolis
"Construction booming in Minnesota, Dakotas," according to a Fargo, N.D., newspaper. Total construction spending in that city is expected to hit a record. The sector is strong in residential, commercial and heavy construction categories in most states. Shortages of workers and subcontractors are common in Minnesota and eastern North Dakota and South Dakota cities. As in recent reports, residential construction is strong in most urban areas. Office building in Minneapolis is at the highest level in 11 years. ... [Read More]
LA FOLLETTE, Robert Marion (1855-1925) Guide to Research Papers
Fargo, ND ... Research Libraries Information Network In addition to the institutions listed above, items are also cataloged in collections at: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY; Harvard Business School, Baker Library, Boston, MA; Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN; North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo, ND; Radcliffe College, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL; University of Oklahoma, Western History Collections, Norman, OK; University of Oregon Library, Eugene, OR; and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. ... [Read More]
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Interim Board -Once the steering committeedecided to form a cooperative, it was dissolved and replaced with an interim board.Dalrymple was elected chairman and subsequently was named interim chief executive officer.Requests were prepared for proposed legal and accounting services. A Minot-based legalfirm (Pringle and Herigstad) and a Fargo-based accounting and business planning firm (EideHelmeke) were hired. ... Once the meeting dates were announced, the statewide media began tointerview individuals about their attitudes on the project. Leonard Gasparre and otherpasta producers expressed considerable doubt about the project. He was quoted as saying,"Farmers are too dumb to run a pasta plant, and besides, they have to take the winteroff to go to Arizona." His remark enraged farmers who had been selling him durum atlow prices. Although Gasparre later printed a full-page apology in the newspaper, the firehad been lit. ... [Read More]
FRB: Beige Book - Minneapolis
"Construction is very good," comments a Billings, Mont., director, whose report would apply to nearly every other major Ninth District city. The mix varies. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area both single-family and multifamily residential building and central city office tower construction are strong, but one mid-size commercial builder notes some softening in suburban light industrial and commercial property. Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, N.D., however, display strength across all categories. ... [Read More]
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