Dakota Datebook

Beer and Bloodshed

by Merry Helm

October 18, 2021 — Prohibition in North Dakota was in full force in 1910, and on this date of that year, the question in Minot was, “Who Stole the City’s Beer?” The story read, “When a number of blind pigs about the city were pulled recently, the amber fluid was confiscated and stored away in the archives of the city hall as evidence. It was placed under lock and key…