At the beginning of the 1910s, women drivers in the United States were still only a small minority--perhaps no more than five percent of the total number of drivers. But ...
Going for a spin in a new-fangled automobile was sometimes a real adventure, as thisaccount from the 1908 Campbell Citizen attests: "The scale of prices established by ...
World War I saw a rapid technological development of aircraft. The end of hostilities stimulated interest in the possible commercial uses of the airplane. Military ...
The Lincoln State Journal of February 13, 1931, included a description of the changing trend in Valentine's Day cards. The old-fashioned sentimental cards were being ...
The coming of the automobile necessitated construction of a network of roads across the state to accommodate motorists. Rural areas, especially in western Nebraska, ...
On March 5, 1908, a Thomas automobile, the American entry in a celebrated around-the-world auto race, reached Omaha. Other entries-French teams in De Dion and Motobloc ...
Long distance travel in the early days of the automobile was difficult, and comforts along the way were few. Motorists pitched their own tents and cooked their own meals ...
As automobile ownership and travel became more widespread in Nebraska after 1900 (and particularly after the dedication of the Lincoln Highway in October of 1913), the ...
The introduction of automobiles was soon followed by the appearance of automobile thieves. The Motorist (Omaha) in its August 1920 issue denounced automobile-related ...
Trading horses, like trading used cars, is an activity that has always been best entered intowith caution. Traders' tricks are legendary. Many's the dupe who thought ...
Long distance travel in the early days of the automobile was difficult, and comforts along the way were few. Motorists pitched their own tents and cooked their own meals ...
Charles Fuller, a pioneer automobile maker, built his first car in 1898 in Angus, Nuckolls County. Angus in 1900 had a population of five hundred and supported twelve ...