A Kearney Ghost Story
Perhaps in anticipation of goblins and ghoulies and long-legged beasties, the Kearney Weekly Hub offered this "Kearney Ghost Story" October 3, 1890.
"There was ...
Kearney
What We Found
Kearney
Perhaps no other name has been applied so frequently, and in so many variations, to Nebraska places as that of Kearney. The name commemorates Bvt. Maj. Gen. Stephen ...
Let the Trader Beware
Trading horses, like trading used cars, is an activity that has always been best entered intowith caution. Traders' tricks are legendary. Many's the dupe who thought ...
Eaton Brothers
By the time Webster Eaton (1839-1907) arrived in Nebraska in 1872, he was already an experienced newspaperman. A native of Brighton, New York, Eaton served in the Union ...
The Farmer Invasion
As autumn and the 1990 elections approach, political parties and special interest groups arevigorously campaigning for their candidates and causes. One hundred years ago ...
The Dandelion Rake
"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 ...
1888 Nebraska State Fair Bands
Bands have been a tradition at the Nebraska State Fair for almost as long as the fair has existed. The September 4, 1886, Daily Call of Lincoln, on microfilm at the ...
Burrows, Maud Marston
Maud Marston Burrows (1864-1938), a noted Kearney newspaperwoman, lawyer, and civic leader, began her career as society editor of the Kearney Enterprise in 1889. ...
Growing Celery
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 ...
Centoria, the State
Nebraskans must have read with interest of "the latest political 'fake,'" in the Lincoln Daily Call on March 2, 1890. The "fake" was an alleged scheme to "cut Nebraska ...
Cherry Day at the Watson Ranch
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 ...
Timeline Tuesday: Electioneering in 1897
John M. Thurston was the featured speaker at the Republican state convention in 1897. From Alfred T. Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882).
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