BEMIDJI — The Beltrami County Historical Society will host its annual history mystery event at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25, at the history center, 130 Minnesota Ave.

This year's event, "History Mystery: The Suspicious Death of Emma Davids," invites the public to step back in time to the early days of the North Country, a release said.

"This year’s mystery revisits the life and untimely death of Emma Davids, a woman of Stockbridge-Munsee heritage who came north seeking a new beginning amid Bemidji’s 1906 logging-boom frontier," the release added. "Found dead at the European Hotel under suspicious circumstances, her passing was officially recorded as 'cause unknown.'

"More than a century later, her story still echoes through the streets of Bemidji and the pine fo

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