“Sane Thanksgiving” Advised by Omaha Mayor
More than a month before the official Thanksgiving holiday in 1909, the Omaha Daily News on October 24 published the plea of mayor James C. Dahlman for what he called a ...
Thanksgiving
What We Found
Frank James a Thanksgiving Star at Norfolk
Frank James. NSHS RG2316-44
Thanksgiving Day in Norfolk in 1904 was marked not only by religious services and family dinners, but by the “amusement feature of the day,” ...
Timeline Tuesday: Thanksgiving in Red Willow County
Thanksgiving in 1896 was celebrated on November 26, and editor F. M. Kimmell of the McCook Tribune took advantage of the holiday to reflect on Red Willow County's recent ...
Timeline Tuesday: A Blustery Thanksgiving in Valentine
President Grover Cleveland in a proclamation issued November 4, 1896, set aside November 26 "to be kept and observed as a day of thanksgiving and prayer throughout our ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Thanksgiving at Hattie B. Monroe House
Only one week until Thanksgiving! Today's Throwback Thursday photograph captured the sweet excitement on the children’s faces as they help prepare the Thanksgiving ...
The Huskers on Thanksgiving 1922 and The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame
Final game at Nebraska Field, November 30, 1922. NSHS RG2758-105-10
It was the final game of the season. Notre Dame came to Lincoln to face Nebraska in front of ...
Thanksgiving at the Fort, 1939
Fort Robinson served as the army’s “Remount Depot,” providing trained horses and mules for the troops. The fort’s holiday feasts were an occasion for dress uniforms and ...
Turkey Day in Holdrege
We have film of live turkeys being thrown from a rooftop in Holdrege in 1939. The Turkey Day promotion had a simple rule: any turkey you caught was yours to cook for ...
A Blustery Valentine Thanksgiving
In 1886, the weather stranded area travelers and forced the cancellation of a Thanksgiving entertainment in Valentine.
President Grover Cleveland in a ...
For Your Enjoyment: Thanksgiving Foods from 1914
Did you ever wish you could step into a time machine and return to 1914, just over one hundred years ago, to join the celebration of Thanksgiving? What might the holiday ...
Throwback Thursday Photo, Happy Thanksgiving
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