Dakota Datebook: News theft in Fargo

Dakota Datebook written by Jayme L. Job.

Fargo newsboys were shocked to learn of a betrayal among their own ranks on February 10 in 1907. A bundle of newspapers had been stolen from the depot of the Great Northern station on this evening, and several of the city’s newsboys were under suspicion for the act. The Fargo ‘newsies’ had “long enjoyed a most enviable reputation for honesty and the theft o...