E. R. Purcell Remembers Newspaper Career in Custer County
“I have recently rounded out fifty years of newspaper work in Custer County,” wrote Emerson R. Purcell in late 1942, shortly after the publication of the golden ...
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Nebraska Digital Newspaper Program Earns $200,000 Grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities has granted the University of Nebraska-Lincoln $200,000 to continue the Nebraska Digital Newspaper Program with an expanded ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Newspaper Dress
Extra! Extra! Read all about our Throwback Thursday Photograph. This unidentified young woman gives new meaning to “being in the news.” She is wearing a dress made from ...
Strange, but True?
These articles were featured in newpapers across Nebraska. Are they true? You be the judge.
"Drunken Baboon Plays Nick. Attacks Actors and Stage Hands and ...
Nebraska Ship Sails on a Sea of Grass
"Wind ship wagon now used for traveling over the prairies - from a sketch by our correspondent," (Source: Leslie's, NSHS RG1576.PH2)
This illustration ...
Husband Wanted
Newspapers in the early 20th century played important roles in Nebraska communities. If the Gering Courier of 1908 is anything to go by, matchmaker was occasionally one ...
Halley’s Comet lights up Nebraska in 1910
The appearance of Halley's comet in Nebraska skies during the spring of 1910 generated a lot of excitement, but it was especially popular in Omaha.
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Six Quick Nebraska Firsts
Here are some Nebraska "firsts," according to Nebraska newspaper columnist Will M.
Maupin who published this list in 1930.
1. "The first railroad was laid by the ...
Nebraska’s First Jewish Newspaper
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant (2021)
“Newspapers are said to be the first draft of history.”
A short-lived twentieth-century newspaper now provides ...
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