Dakota Datebook: May 04, 2020

Upright Sleeper

May 4, 2020 — We’ve all heard about talking in your sleep – and many of us do. And then there’s sleepwalking, which afflicted pilot Carl Ben Eielson the night before he’d set out on any new adventure. But today’s story is about something far more unusual.

On this date in 1905, the Fargo Forum and Daily Republican published a story about a woman named Mary Dickerson, who was called...