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Timeline Tuesday: Beauty and the Beast

The Red Cloud Opera House on February 4, 1888, was the scene of an amateur theatrical entitled Beauty and the Beast. Small-town opera houses hosted such ...

Timeline Tuesday: Beating the Heat in 1906

In the days before air conditioning, getting a good night's sleep during the heat of summer was sometimes a problem. One obvious solution was to sleep outdoors. ...

Flashback Friday: Photographer C. W. Bonham’s North Platte Valley

A Scottsbluff man was browsing an estate sale in 2014 when he noticed a box full of glass plate photographic negatives. Many were broken, but twenty-six were whole and ...

Timeline Tuesday: Union Pacific Railroad

In October of 1934 the Union Pacific Railroad's new Pullman-equipped, six-car speed train attempted a new coast-to-coast record. Dashing from Los Angeles to New York in ...

Marker Monday: Nebraska Statehood Memorial

Location 1627-1699 H St, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska Marker Text From 1854 to 1867 the seat of territorial and state government was in Omaha. In 1867 the ...

Flashback Friday: A Gentleman’s Game: Nineteenth-Century Soccer in Omaha

What Americans call “soccer” is one of several sports that evolved from games played for centuries in Europe, loosely called “football.” The history of the sport in ...

Timeline Tuesday: Artificial Stone

The real beginnings of the modern concrete block industry did not begin until the advent of Harmon S. Palmer's cast-iron machine for making such blocks, patented in ...

Marker Monday: Franklin Academy

Location Park Dr, Franklin, Franklin County, Nebraska View this marker's location 40.101066, -98.95265 View a map of all Nebraska historical markers, click ...

Women of the Great War: WWI Posters

By David L. Bristow, Editor World War I was fought not only with weapons but also with pictures and words. After the United States declared war on Germany in April ...

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