Flashback Friday: Pioneer Cemetery Receives Historical Marker
The playing of the national anthem, firing of muskets, and the shuffling of feet over the ground above him weren’t enough to wake Francis Henry Baker from his 117-year ...
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Timeline Tuesday: Union Pacific Railroad
In October of 1934 the Union Pacific Railroad's new Pullman-equipped, six-car speed train attempted a new coast-to-coast record. Dashing from Los Angeles to New York in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Beating the Heat in 1906
In the days before air conditioning, getting a good night's sleep during the heat of summer was sometimes a problem. One obvious solution was to sleep outdoors. ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, FERA Canning Center in Norfolk
Who has been doing some canning this fall? Today’s Throwback Thursday photograph features a group of men seated a table preparing beans for canning. The men worked under ...
Indianola Herb tablets
NSHS 8073-123-(1), Source: Dr. Richard Tanner (heirs)
This is an envelope (above) that was used to hold Indianola herb tablets, concocted by Richard "Diamond ...
Homestead Bell
In the early 1900s, this bell was used on a homestead in Otoe County to call farmhands to meals. In the 1920s, it was used by WJAG radio announcer, and future ...
Hallmark Cards and their Nebraska Roots
Read more about the Hall Brothers and the beginning of Hallmark in this Nebraska History Magazine article from 2008.
Looking back to his ...
When buses were “the car of the future”
Not everyone was happy about “motor buses” when they first appeared in the early 1900s. But by 1925 the Nebraska State Journal said that attempts by railroads or ...
Norfolk’s WJAG and the Roots of Political Talk Radio
Does political talk radio go too far? And does a station have a responsibility to present opposing points of view? In 1946, Norfolk, Neb., radio station WJAG had its ...
Frank James a Thanksgiving Star at Norfolk
Thanksgiving Day in Norfolk in 1904 was marked not only by religious services and family dinners, but by the “amusement feature of the day,” matinee and ...
Nan J. Aspinwall, Western Entertainer
When Nan Aspinwall arrived in New York on July 8, 1911, after a ride on horseback from San Francisco to New York, it was perhaps the highlight of a long and colorful ...
Marker Monday: Johnny Carson
Marker Text
Born in Iowa, Johnny Carson (1925-2005) grew up in Norfolk at 306 S. 13th St. A performer from an early age, he graduated from Norfolk High School in 1943, ...
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