Need info on two dug tokens

[Gridwalker306]

Hey guys, anybody see these tokens before? They are from Portal North Dakota, I dug them on the Canadian side in North Portal Saskatchewan. I can't find any info on them.

 

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[tokensmith]

Nice find. The token isn't listed on tokencatalog nor in Peterson & Johnson's ND token book. I found a listing for Bazil Zemo in Portal as a grocery & variety store in the 1918 Dun.

 

[Mackaydon]

Portal.—The arrest of Basil Zema and Mrs. McNamara, both being boundover to the district court, under $1,00Cbonds, has created a local sensation.
Source: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...ed-1/seq-4.pdf
Another report in the Duluth Herald on Dec. 22, 1913 has the same report.
Don......

 

[Gridwalker306]

WOW Mackaydon, I'm impressed! Thanks for the info, I'm going to ask a few local oldtimers if they know the story!

 

[Gridwalker306]

Thanks tokensmith, that's awesome!