The 1905 State Corn Contest
It may have been the Christmas season, but it was corn that was on everyone's mind in Lincoln in December of 1905.
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Christmas
What We Found
Christmas at Creighton, 1876
According to the Niobrara Pioneer of December 28, 1876, local weather was appropriate for the Yuletide season. Snow on Christmas Eve "made Christmas appear more as if ...
Holiday Wishes from 1948
Staff photo of Varsity Theatre, Lincoln, in 1948. RG2183.PH1948-1126
The staff of the Varsity Theatre, located in 1948 at 143 North Thirteenth Street in ...
Christmas Postal Rush
"One great trouble with the Christmas business,” remarked the Nebraska State Journal of December 24, 1892, “is the habit formed by the great unthinking public of waiting ...
Christmas in Falls City
Twinkling lights, crisp winter air, bright packages adorned with bows, festive food--no matter what holidays you celebrate (or don’t), the holiday season can be a ...
Turkey from a Hog: Omaha’s First Christmases
To mark the approach of Christmas in 1889 the Omaha Bee published brief recollections by some of the city’s earliest settlers about their first observances of the ...
J. Sterling Morton’s War on Christmas Trees
As you prepare to take down your tree after the holidays, here’s Nebraska Hall-of-Famer J. Sterling Morton with a cup of holiday cheer for you. Morton (1832-1902) is ...
The Christmas Wagon Comes to Fort Robinson, 1882
Martin Weber never forgot the year he traveled through a blizzard to bring Christmas packages to Fort Robinson. In 1934 the old soldier described his 1882 adventure ...
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