Baseball Sportswriter Insults, 1894
Baseball was a popular pastime during the 1890s, and so was newspaper coverage full of colorful insults. In late summer of 1894 the Lincoln, Nebraska, baseball team ...
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What We Found
C. L. Brainard at the Nebraska State Normal School
In September of 1872 C. L. Brainard, Sr., entered the state normal school at Peru, Nebraska, in what he called "my first real venture away from home." Brainard was then ...
Coal for Home Heating
Most modern homes are heated with electricity or natural gas during cold weather. However, coal was once the fuel of choice for Nebraska homeowners. The comfort of one's ...
Beating the Heat in the 1930s
The mid 1930s saw some of the hottest summer temperatures ever recorded in Nebraska. When Ruth Godfrey Donovan and her family moved to Lincoln in 1934, the Depression ...
Beautifying the Farm
Noted landscape architect E. H. Herminghaus left his mark on Nebraska's capital city,creating scenes of "natural" beauty at Pioneers Park, the grounds of the State ...
Coal Thieves
The advent of winter at one time prompted many Nebraska householders to lay in a supply of coal. Those who lacked the money sometimes found creative ways to fill the ...
Becoming American
For many immigrants to this country, becoming "American" was a top priority. While somelonged for the ways of the old country, many embraced the new ways America had to ...
The Communist Threat
The warming of U.S.-Soviet relations and the crumbling of communist parties' control inEastern Europe are changing they way we look at the world. But sixty years ago, ...
A Bogus Detective Agency
Modern attempts to defraud the credulous by offering membership in a group with accompanying benefits in exchange for an upfront payment have long roots. The Omaha Daily ...
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. That year over 500 Nebraska boys and girls descended ...
Corn Contest, 1905
To create an interest in agriculture, the Nebraska Department of Public Instruction (later Department of Education) announced a corn contest for boys in the spring of ...
Burman, Ellis
Sculptor Ellis Luis Burman may be an unfamiliar name to most Nebraskans, but his sculptures remain well known to visitors of Lincoln parks. Born in 1902 in Toledo, Ohio, ...
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