An important part of the bygone custom of paying New Year's calls was the presentation of an appropriate calling or visiting card by the caller to the hostess. Inscribed ...
Clement C. Chase, pioneer Omaha resident and longtime editor of the Omaha Excelsior, on September 30, 1916, published in the Excelsior his recollections of early Omaha. ...
It may have been the Christmas season, but it was corn that was on everyone's mind inLincoln in December of 1905. That year over 500 Nebraska boys and girls descended on ...
The last decade of the last century is often referred to as "the Gay Nineties." But for farmersin Nebraska, the nineties were not so gay. Ample rainfall had produced ...
Edward Rosewater, longtime editor and publisher of the Omaha Bee, and a force to be reckoned with in Nebraska politics from the Bee's founding in 1871 until his death in ...
The Cornhusker, yearbook of the University of Nebraska, in 1918 was dedicated to "Nebraskans-Students, Alumni, Faculty-here and over there" who were serving in World War ...
"Children Barefoot in January," the headline read. No, it's not a news account of l990's mildweather (at least so far). This tale of an unusually mellow winter, and its ...
Modern shipping companies pride themselves on prompt, reliable delivery service, whatever the weather. But few of them could match the phenomenal performance of this ...
"The holidays passed off at this place very enjoyably considering the hard times," the editor of the Niobrara Pioneer observed late in December, 1874. Pioneering in ...
The 1920s ushered in significant changes in American life. They were years when most Americans acquired their first radios and automobiles, and achieved the highest ...
The Corner Grocery at 801 South 11th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska. 1904
Increased consumer demand from Thanksgiving through New Year's has always been a boon to ...
The Christmas of 1889 in Omaha was memorable chiefly for the record high temperatures recorded there. The Omaha Daily Bee on December 25, under the headline "Mid-Summer ...