Timeline Tuesday: Gaining and Losing: James C. Dahlman and William Howard Taft
Mayor James "Cowboy Jim" Dahlman of Omaha. From Omaha Police Department Official Historical Souvenir (1909).
James C. Dahlman, the colorful "perpetual ...
Timeline Tuesday
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Timeline Tuesday: Electioneering in 1897
John M. Thurston was the featured speaker at the Republican state convention in 1897. From Alfred T. Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882).
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Timeline Tuesday: The Last Buffalo and Other Hunting Stories
When A. N. Ward reminisced about his early hunting exploits with a reporter from the Omaha World-Herald in 1910, he recalled the days when the Nebraska prairie abounded ...
Timeline Tuesday: Lincoln Penny
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth and the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Lincoln penny. When the Lincoln one-cent coin ...
Timeline Tuesday: Nebraska’s Bees and Wasps
The Omaha Daily Bee was certainly the largest and most influential Nebraska newspaper to include "Bee" in its name. Its longtime editor, Edward Rosewater (1841-1906), in ...
Timeline Tuesday: Magic among the Indians
What happens when a magician is tricked by his audience? Julius Meyer, pioneer Omaha merchant and Indian trader, is the source for this tale of how Sioux tribesmen in ...
Timeline Tuesday: The Shoemaker’s Ashes
"Edward Kuehl, one of the most peculiar characters that ever lived in Omaha, or anywhere else, was found dead in his bed last night in the back room of his place of ...
Timeline Tuesday: A Murderer’s Pardon: Governor Poynter and John Benwell Kearns
Governor William A. Poynter. NSHS RG2413.PH0-3
When John Benwell Kearns (aka John Benwell) was released from the Nebraska State Penitentiary on May 23, ...
Timeline Tuesday: Mud Springs
Mud Springs is located in south-central Morrill County, Nebraska, near present-day Dalton. According to Paul Henderson's article on the well-known Overland Trail site in ...
Timeline Tuesday: An Ice Union of Two Cities
January 12, 1888, marked not only the famous blizzard but a happier event -- what the Omaha Daily Bee on January 13 called "An Ice Union of Two Cities." Despite the ...
Timeline Tuesday: Labor Day Parade, 1894
Omaha's Labor Day parade of 1894 was a "wonderfully successful affair, and was viewed from railings, steps, windows and sidewalks by fully 30,000 people," according to ...
Timeline Tuesday: Schuyler Flour Mill Once the Largest West of Missouri River
The Schuyler Mill in its heyday. RG3466.PH4-6
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries more than five hundred flour mills were built in ...
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