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Thanksgiving

November 28, 2024 – Today is Thanksgiving, so we are taking a glimpse at the holiday from long ago.

In 1891, the Thanksgiving menu of the Headquarters Hotel in Fargo took

up two pages, and included such dishes as blue point oysters, frog legs, sweetbreads and wild game like venison, quail and duck. In 1901, The Northwest hotel in Bismarck, among its many items, offered such interesting fare as green…