Patzel’s “Poo-ey” Piques Pigs’ Passion
When his last dynamic “Poo-ey” died away at the Omaha Auditorium on the night of September 11, 1926, Fred Patzel had won the title of World’s Champion Hog Caller.
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Omaha
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Marker Monday Capitol Hill
Marker Text
This site on Capitol Hill was for a decade the location of Nebraska’s second territorial capitol. The building was erected here in 1857 and 1858 and ...
When the Territorial Capitol basement was a human litter box, 1859
In 1859 members of the legislature used the capitol basement's dirt floor as a latrine.
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How filing cabinets changed the world
This is a story of a piece of office infrastructure that quietly helped create the modern world. Nebraska newspapers first carried ads for filing cabinets in the ...
Senator Joseph McCarthy attacks President Truman on Omaha radio, 1951
By David L. Bristow, Editor
“You are not fooling anyone by screaming that McCarthy is lying,” said Sen. Joseph McCarthy into a KFAB microphone ...
1976: Omaha’s Court-Ordered Integration (Part One)
The Omaha Public School District was forced to face its racial imbalance and produced an integration plan that would reassign students to new schools and bus routes.
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1976: Omaha’s Court-Ordered Integration (Part Two)
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
In an earlier post we looked at how a 1975 court order addressed Omaha Public Schools’ racial imbalance by requiring ...
The 1901 New Year
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 ...
The Church Built Top to Bottom – St. Mary Magdalene Church in Omaha
Omaha’s St. Mary Magdalene Church has the distinction of being built in reverse order. It's upper level was completed in 1903, its lower level in 1920. How is this possible?
Julius Meyer Indian Wigwam, 1878
A Jewish immigrant from Prussia, Julius Meyer followed his brothers to Omaha in the 1860s and made contact with various Indigenous nations in the region. Meyer said he ...
“Cocaine fiends” in Omaha, 1907
Advertisement for medicinal drops to relieve toothache, Lloyd Manufacturing Co., 1885. Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Cocaine was once touted for its ...
For career woman in 1930, “home’s still home”
"I honestly believe there is no sound reason why women should not be in business," Miss Loretta Larsen told the Omaha Bee-News in 1930. Larsen appeared in ...
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