"Kearney has it and has it bad," said the Kearney Daily Hub on May 14, 1902. "The dandelion is taking the town, literally overrunning it from end to end, covering lawns ...
Nebraska farmers have often experimented with new crops in their endeavor to obtain wealth from the land. The Kearney Daily Hub, on May 16, 1901, reported on the ...
In 1888, H. D. Watson established the historic Watson Ranch, at one time containing 8,000 acres, reaching from the fertile Platte Valley on the south to the rolling ...
From the Kearney Daily Hub, January 16, 1893 (at left).
Nebraska was home during the late nineteenth century to a number of local Keeley hospitals or treatment ...
From the Kearney Daily Hub, January 30, 1932. “No doubt many of our readers in this locality are close observers of ‘signs,’” said the Nebraska Advertiser on February ...
This colorful GAR badge is from Hastings, Nebraska. NSHS 13000-3348 (at left).
Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1925 was celebrated by the History Club of Kearney State ...
Solomon D. Butcher depicted the cigar stand inside Kearney’s Midway Hotel, which hosted many social events sponsored by the Bachelors’ Protective Union. NSHS ...
Emil Brandeis. NSHS RG2411.PHO-565 (at left).
Lately the news has been full of stories about the sinking of Titanic and the reissue of James Cameron’s movie about its ...
Rhubarb, a plant well known to pie and dessert lovers in Nebraska, has a long history in this state. Its use as a substitute for fruit in a newly settled country where ...
From the Kearney Daily Hub, April 21, 1917
“Kearney has it and has it bad,” said the Kearney Daily Hub on May 14, 1902. “The dandelion is taking the town, literally ...
After Shelton resident Emory Wyman (1834-1929) was elected to the Nebraska House of Representatives in 1898, he wasted no time in introducing a bill on compulsory voting ...
A student or teacher slides down what appears to be a flexible fire escape outside York’s Central School during a fire drill, February 10, 1910. NSHS RG2856-9-62 ...