Asks Help To Find Father, Formerly Here
Reqest for help in locating her father, once a resident of or near Bismarck, is contained in a letter received by Sheriff Welch from Mrs G.C. Fain, Hotel Portland, San Francisco, California.
"Having found my mother after 35 years I am trying to find my father and will pay a liberal reward to anybody that can tell me where he is and where I can find him."
She explains that all she knows is that her father worked for Thomas Gilbert, who had a vegetable ranch near Bismarck, in the year 1884. Her mother was at the time Miss Ida J Gilbert, daughter of Mrs Thomas Gilbert, but is now married and living in Oakland, Calif., and the letter adds, "for some reason of her own will not tell me who my father was, not even his name or his race."
Mrs. Fain says she is living as comfortably as may be expected, but that she is worrying over who her father was and that "it is a terrible feeling not to know."
12/11/1922 Bismarck Tribune
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Bismarck. — Eugenia, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Shepard of this city, died within a few hours after being scalded when, in taking a step backward, she tripped and fell into a pail of boiling water standing upon the floor.
Turtle Mountain Star, 12/1/1921
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Smoke pouring from the oven of the stove of Henry J. Ramsey of Killdeer caused that gentleman to turn in a fire alarm. When the firemen arrived they discovered the trouble to be a burned-up roast which had been neglected by the family.
Hansboro News, 12/14/1917
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Well Known Colored Porter Dies of Exposure at Fargo.
Fargo.—The body of Bill Ford, the colored hotel porter and well known about the city for years as one of Fargo's familiar characters, was found frozen to death about 100 feet south of the old waterworks station in Island Park.
The old fellow, who was about 65 years old, had been missing for four days from his customary haunts and in his clothes was found a bottle of whisky. It is believed he had been on a four days' drunk and fell down in the park where he was frozen in a drunken stupor. The chief besetting sin of the old man was too much drink and his habit was to absent himself for several days at a time when on one of his debauches.
Turtle Mountain Star, 12/19/1912
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Fatally wounded with his own gun, J. O. Lay, special federal officer, died a few minutes later in a hospital at Fort Yates. He was shot by his own revolver when he accidentally dropped the weapon on the running board of his car and it discharged. The slug entered his abdomen.
Ralph Bachman, "Prairie Paragraphs", The Billings County Pioneer - Jan 2, 1941
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ND Stands Third in Plural Births
North Dakota mothers are more apt to have plural births (twins and triplets) than are the mothers in any other state of the union except Arkansas and Wyoming, reports Dr. J. M. Gilette, University of North Dakota sociology department head.
Dr. Gilette also found that in 1939, though the birth rate was less in North Dakota than in Montana or Minnesota, twin births occurred much more frequently than in the two neighboring states. South Dakota, with about the same population as North Dakota, had both fewer births and fewer twins.
The UND sociologist is attempting to find out why some states have more plural births than others and whether plural births are associated with racial stocks. Last year 179 cases of twins were reported in North Dakota by the U.S. Census.
Dr. Gillette commented that in the United States during 1939 twins occurred once in 47 births, triplets once in 9,000 births and quadruplets once in 1,132,794 births. Illinois and Texas were the only states to have quadruplets; there were 24,908 cases of twins and 274 cases of triplets. The total number of new arrivals was 2,265,588.
Mouse River Farmers Press, 12/5/1940
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