Parking Problems in the 1920s
With the rise of the automobile came the need for parking space, an acute problem in large towns and cities in Nebraska as early as the 1920s. Journalist and press ...
Henry Allen Brainerd
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World War I – Sugar Shortage
"I read just a day or two ago that there was not more than fifty sacks of sugar to be had in the city of Lincoln," wrote Henry Allen Brainerd to the Lincoln Star in an ...
Brainerd, Henry A.
Journalist and press historian Henry Allen Brainerd, a native of Boston, migrated to Nebraska in the early 1880s. Trained to set type when a boy in Boston in the office ...
Timeline Tuesday: Brainerd and Furnas at the Fair
H. A. Brainerd. From Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County, Nebraska (1888).
In 1926 journalist and Nebraska press historian Henry Allen Brainerd ...
Parking Problems in the 1920s
Traffic congestion and parking woes in Nebraska's capital are nothing new. Lincoln newspapers were receiving letters from frustrated residents as early as the 1920s.
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