Greetings from 1930
Here's a message from the brand new year, courtesy the Sarpy County Agriculturalist,January, 1930:
"This is A. D. 1930 Broadcasting. Hello everybody out there, Happy ...
Sarpy County
What We Found
Howard, Edgar
The varied career of Edgar Howard (1858-1951), one of Nebraska's most colorful public figures, spanned more than forty years and won him wide state and national ...
The Class of ’73
Each autumn, Nebraska schools, colleges, and universities schedule "homecoming," a chancefor alumni to return and remember old times. In the fall of 1929, the University ...
From the Kitchen Table to Congress: Doris Royal’s Tax Campaign
“Do you realize I haven’t contributed a dime to this farm today according to the IRS?” Doris Royal told her husband after a twelve-hour day pitching hay and feeding ...
The Nebraska Highway Archeology Program— “So, How Do You Know Where to Dig?”
In an earlier blog post, we introduced a brief history and purpose of the Nebraska Highway Archeology Program (NHAP) – a cooperative venture by the Nebraska Department ...
Greetings from the 1930’s
The Sarpy County Agriculturist rang in 1930 with a blunt but timeless new year message: You were a disappointment last year, do better this time.
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Sarpy County’s namesake “a legend in his own time”
The namesake of Sarpy County, Peter Sarpy (1805-1865) was an important trader whose career spanned Nebraska’s fur trade and territorial periods. “Sarpy’s life is not ...
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