New Year’s Holiday
The Omaha Daily News, on December 31, 1900, reported on the city's plans to greet a new year. According to the News: "Amid imposing religious services, the ringing of ...
Nebraska State Journal
What We Found
Newspaper Portraits
The faces seen in illustrated newspapers of the late nineteenth century often seem surprisingly similar. Engravings of U.S. congressmen, patent medicine purveyors, ...
Novel Flying Machine
Readers of the Nebraska State Journal on August 16, 1891, must have been intrigued by a perhaps tongue-in-cheek description of "A Novel Flying Machine." Described by ...
Parachuting Accident
Aerial stunts and parachute jumps, which predated the invention of the airplane by a number of years, were attended by frequent mishaps. An Omaha-area balloon ascension ...
Peace Ship
In December of 1915 the chartered Oscar II carried an American delegation to Europe to exert moral, social, and diplomatic pressure to end World War I. The peace ship, ...
Phonograph
The Nebraska State Journal on November 24, 1888, reported the introduction into Lincoln of a new business machine, the phonograph. The Journal reported that Edison's ...
Rain in Nebraska!
"RAIN IN NEBRASKA," the headline read. "LONG DRY SPELL IS BROKEN BY HEAVYSHOWERS." In the hopes that history may repeat itself, here's more of the drought-breaking ...
Relief in Nebraska, 1895
The early spring weather of 1894 gave Nebraska farmers some reason to hope that after several successive years of drought and poor crops, this might be the long-awaited ...
Sandhills, Hawley’s Proposed Reclamation of
Conservation and prison reform were combined in a proposal by R. A. Hawley for the reclamation of the Sandhills of Nebraska in 1893. Hawley believed it feasible to plant ...
Saving the State’s Money
An official review of Nebraska state expenditures in early 1908 uncovered several questionable purchases. The Nebraska State Journal on January 28, 1908, noted that the ...
Almanacs and Weather Forecasts
Almanacs were standard literature in most Nebraska homes in the late 1800s and well into the 1900s. These calendar-like handbooks were compendiums of odd bits of ...
Skinner, George B.
George B. Skinner (1833-95) was an early Lincoln resident who operated a livery, sale, and feed business but was better known for his temperance work. His longtime ...
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