“North Dakota needs new settlers,” wrote Governor Ragnvald Nestos on the back of this menu. “We have room for them to live and to succeed.” Nestos was governor from 1921 to 1925.
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The menu included a “special dinner featuring North Dakota products,” including turkey, squash, wheat muffins, and apple pie. “Testifying to the great resourcefulness of North Dakota’s farm and dairy industries,” says the menu, “today you will find butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, beef, mutton, veal, pork, fruit, vegetables, flour, cereals and even sugar on the Northern Pacific Dining Cars, all North Dakota products.” North Dakota (where some of my family was from) is indeed a great agricultural producer, but the winters are terrible, so it is probably a good thing that mechanization has greatly reduced the need for farm workers in the state.