Muriel R. Wilkins, who attended high school in Washington County during the late 1930s, in 1980 recalled the effect that World War II had upon her clothing styles and ...
Two Thanksgiving reports from the 1890s illustrate the coming of hard times to Nebraska. The 1890s saw the countryās worst economic depression until the 1930s.
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"One of the quietest Thanksgiving days observed in many years was passed in Lincoln yesterday," said theĀ Nebraska StateĀ JournalĀ of November 29, 1907. "With no football ...
Nearly a month before the official Thanksgiving holiday in 1909, theĀ Omaha Daily NewsĀ published mayor JamesĀ Dahlman'sĀ plea for what he called a "sane Thanksgiving." ...
John M. Thayer (1820-1906), Nebraska plainsman, soldier, legislator, and chief executive, was interviewed in old age by theĀ Omaha World-HeraldĀ about his Civil War ...
John Nelson's photograph of a baseball game includes a catcher with face mask in the left foreground.Ā NSHSĀ RG3542:PH:097-12Ā
The catcher's mask in baseball was invented ...
President George Bush's recent trip to Nebraska was a logistical tour-de-force. The
presidential advance team, scads of Secret Service men, state and local police, ...
Improbable fishing yarns have been around as long as fish and fishing. TheĀ Norfolk Weekly News-JournalĀ in the summer of 1907 reported an escalating series of such tales ...
The advent of the automobile changed transportation for many Nebraskans. In larger
communities, even if you couldn't afford a car, you could buy a ride in a taxi, or ...
Of all the land laws affecting Nebraska, the Timber Culture Act of 1873, designed to promote the planting of trees, was perhaps the least successful and subject to many ...
The recent opening of a multi-million-dollar film epic about the April 1912 sinking ofĀ TitanicĀ has sparked new interest in the ill-fated liner and her passengers. Even ...
The football schedules of early Nebraska teams sometimes matchedĀor mismatched-high school and college teams, and paired both with teams organized by other groups such ...