Today in History revisits the Wednesday, October 28, 1903 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story on Great Northern's Engineer Peterson and Fireman O'Brien getting lost on Cass Lake, Minnesota, after a windstorm blew their sailboat to a desolate island. The famished "Robinson Crusoes" were found by a search party, having delayed two trains.

Also, discovered in Today in History was use of the term Messrs. The term Messrs. (pronounced messers ) is a formal abbreviation of the French word Messieurs , which is the plural of Monsieur (Mr.). In English articles, its primary use is to formally refer to multiple men when their names are listed, often when they are acting together in a business, legal, or professional capacity (e.g., "Messrs. Peterson and O'Brien"). Messrs i

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