Searching for Smuggled Hooch
U. S. Customs and Drug Enforcement Agency officials are kept busy these days searching forsmuggled illegal drugs. Traffickers have hidden drugs in everything from ...
Neligh
What We Found
Those Fish Stories
Improbable fishing yarns have been around as long as fish and fishing. The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal in the summer of 1907 reported an escalating series of such tales ...
White Buffalo Girl
A stone in the Laurel Hill Cemetery at Neligh, Nebraska, reads: "White Buffalo Girl, Daughter of Black Elk and Moon Hawk of Ponca Tribe, Died May 23, 1877, enroute from ...
Wolfe, Emanuel, Photographer
Nebraska merchant and photographer Emanuel Wolfe (1858-1933) used a camera to record images of his changing life in a diary of photographs. Over the course of ...
Gates Gridiron Greats
In honor of all those who face combat on the football fields this fall, here's a report on GatesCollege (Neligh) team of 1895. "On Friday evening last the Gates College ...
Lazy Days of Summer
Are you enjoying your summer as much as the boys in this photograph?
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“Women, High Living, and Diamonds” for Omaha’s Bartenders
Omaha in 1886 boasted about 150 saloons manned by a host of bartenders who ministered to the city’s thirst for beer and hard liquor. The Omaha Bee on September 26, 1886, ...
Kester Planing Mill listed on the National Register
South and West elevations, facing Northeast.
The Kester Planing Mill in Neligh has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places as of July 28, ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Neligh Race Car
Today’s Throwback Thursday photo has our motor running. Two unidentified young men pose with their souped up Essex Motors automobile on the dirt race track in Neligh, ...
Five Ways to Experience the History of Nebraska
#1 Chimney Rock
Feel the awe and curiosity the pioneers experienced when they saw the most famous landmark on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
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Downtown Style: Three New National Historic Districts
By David Calease
Three Nebraska downtowns are destined for the National Register of Historic Places. Grand Island, Kearney, and Neligh were all nominated for listing ...
Neligh Carnegie Library Saved and Becomes a Home
Andrew Carnegie
It’s hard to imagine a world without free access to the unlimited knowledge offered by public libraries. But at the beginning of the twentieth ...
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