The Forum's circulation department can tell you this newspaper gets around, going to people in about 40 states and to such countries as Sweden, Australia, Russia and Japan.
This photo is further evidence of that.
It comes courtesy of Grete Lee, of Hinton, Alberta, Canada, a senior at Concordia College in Moorhead majoring in history and English.
In 2004, Grete was one of a group of Concordia students on a May seminar trip to France, where they focused their attention on the Normandy region.
Normandy, of course, is engraved in history as the site of World War II's D-Day landings, which led to the freeing of Western Europe from Hitler.
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One day the students visited the Museum of Caen. (Caen is one of the major cities in Normandy.)
There, in a frame on the wall, was Page One of the June 6, 1944, issue of The Fargo Forum (as it was officially called then), announcing that the Allied invasion of Europe was on.
There were a couple of other newspapers there, too, but Grete took this picture of The Forum. It was, after all, the paper from her college community.
She could be proud, incidentally, that, as the paper noted, Canadians were part of the D-Day forces, along with troops from the United States and Great Britain.
It is unknown, however, if Mandel Furs, Fargo, which had an ad on the displayed page, got any business from France.
For sure, Fargo and this area are well-represented on the walls of the Museum of Caen.
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