Newspaper Scandal and a Murder
Nebraska has seen many unusual murder cases through the years, each with its own unique causes. One, in Adams County in 1892, was prompted by local gossip about a young ...
Kearney Daily Hub
What We Found
Plenty of Beer
Readers of the Kearney Daily Hub on August 16, 1930, must have been startled to read that there was "Plenty of Beer to be Had in Kearney and Many Imbibe it." State and ...
A Question of Business: Will Machines Replace Stenographers?
In 1877 Thomas A. Edison invented a machine that could record and reproduce the human voice using a tinfoil-covered cylinder. Edison's phonograph, his trade name for his ...
Seeing Lincoln: Civil War Veterans Remember
Abraham Lincoln's birthday in February of 1925 was celebrated by the History Club of Kearney State Teachers College with a dinner attended not only by members of the ...
Skating Under Cover: Kearney’s Indoor Ice Rink
Ice skating enthusiasts in Nebraska braved winter weather and rough ice before the advent of the indoor rink made "skating under cover" a more comfortable experience. ...
Gold Cure for the Liquor Habit
Nebraska was home during the late nineteenth century to a number of local Keeley hospitals or treatment centers for patients addicted to alcohol, nicotine, and narcotic ...
Groundhog Day in Nebraska
"No doubt many of our readers in this locality are close observers of 'signs,'" said the Nebraska Advertiser on February 11, 1875, "and especially of ground-hog day, as ...
The Instant Town
Adjusting to rapid change is a trial we associate with "modern" life. But a hundred years agoNebraskans witnessed change almost overnight as new portions of the state ...
Around the World on Wheels
In April of 1895 Mr. and Mrs. H. Darwin McIlrath pedaled west from Chicago, determined to circle the world on bicycles. During their journey, sponsored by the Chicago ...
Arsenic in the Candy: A Poisoning Sensation in Hastings
"The central figure in the Hastings poisoning sensation is Miss Viola Horlocker, a popular young woman of that town, who has made many visits to this city and is well ...
Marriage in Hard Times
"The year 1932, now fast drawing to its close, may have seen a lot of big events go down in the history of the world," said the Kearney Daily Hub on December 31, 1932. ...
Drilling for Oil at Shelton
Nebraska's first producing oil well was drilled in Richardson County in 1940, but prior to that date some drilling had been done in other parts of the state. One such ...
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