New Year Storm Brings Snow and Sled Fun in Osceola
The weeklong blizzard left ankle deep snow and harsh glare on roads. Residents ride sleds, toss snowballs, and build snowmen while over shoes and shovels fly off local shelves amid chilly commutes and lingering gear trouble. Senator Curtis cites a payola claim, noting government funding for a three month tour by Jack Teagarden and his band. A tour guide explains glacier geology to tourists who question why glaciers left.
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Alaska
Osceola
Carl T. Curtis
Washington
Sam
Jack Teagarden
Texas
Church Garden Reverence for Cemeteries and Ancestors
A Vermont scene prompts a father and daughter to name a church garden a cemetery. The piece laments erosion of respect for burial grounds amid modern life and urges renewed loyalty to ancestors and the memory of past freedoms.
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Vermont
From Revolution To Revelation Rambler rises again in Detroit
Detroit reports Rambler automobiles will outsell all but two makes in 1959. American Motors Corp will hire 3 500 more workers to raise Rambler output by 33 percent in early 1960. The piece cites Rambler as a comeback example amid industry shifts sparked by Henry Ford's mass production model.
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Detroit
Rambler
American Motors Corporation
Henry Ford
Cinderella tale of Rambler and the 1950s car boom
The text traces a postwar shift in auto branding to glamorize ownership, noting GM's influence and the push for compact cars in the 1950s. George Romney at American Motors spots the trend, turning Rambler into a success story with sales projected from 400,000 in 1959 to well over 500,000 in 1960, matching big automakers.
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General Motors
George Romney
American Motors
Rambler
Farm Account Books and Short Welding Course Offered
The new revised Farm Account Book is available at the Extension Office with 1959 revisions for easier farm record keeping. A welding short course for January 18 22 in Lincoln is open to farmers and others with a 15 dollar fee, 12 dormitory spaces, meals via campus cafeteria, and registration through the County Extension Office.
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Lincoln
Urban Wendorff
Rollin Schneider
Department of Agricultural Engineering
College of Agriculture
County Extension Office
Court Notice Dates for J E Steeple Dated 1959
Public notice dated December 21 1959 lists seal and order for J E Steeple with effective dates December 24 1959 December 31 1959 and January 7 1960 for related actions.
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J. E. Steeple
Notice of Probate for A. W. Martens Deceased
Polk County Nebraska notifies interested parties a petition to probate the last will of A. W. Martens and appoint Harry I. Hylton as executor. Hearing set for January 15, 1960 at 1 PM in the County Court Room Osceola Nebraska. Dated December 30, 1959.
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Polk County
Nebraska
Nina M. Nelson
State of
J. E. Steeple
Sadie Jarmin
District Court
A. A. Tschauner
Ralph L. Tschauner
Elmer J. Tschauner
A Tschauner
Island No
Nebrasi
Court House
Osceola
A. W. Martens
Harry I. Hylton
County Coat Room
Swede Home Guests and Holiday Visits Chronicle
A long list of holiday visits and social gatherings around Swede Home notes neighbors Mrs Harold W Johnson family and friends. Activities include New Year celebrations, Sunday dinners, supper guests, and relatives visiting from Illinois Kansas and Iowa with multiple households hosting gatherings through the holidays.
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Adolph Forss
Willard Adelson
Harvey Sundberg
Raymond D. Johnson
Carole
Dennis Johnson
Krystal
Roger Hanquist
Wayne
Gregg
Marlowe Johnson
Harold W. Johnson
Forss
Lone Star Social Notes from Lubbock to Columbus
Mr and Mrs Rudolf Nitch visited Christmas and several days with the Nitch family in Lubbock Texas returning home on New Year s Day. Several relatives attended weddings and visited in Missouri Columbus Osceola and David City area with the Leimser Hahn Bollig Husmann Novak Poe and other families.
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Rudolf Nitch
Bernard Nitch
Rudolf Nitch, Jr
Lubbock
Texas
Albert Inselman
Missouri
Kenneth Adkisson
Regina
Clarks
Carl Bollig
Columbus
Leimser Family Hosts New Year Gatherings
In David City area residents hosted friends and relatives over New Year’s Eve. The Leimser and Schmidt families visited L Leimser and C W Leimser homes, with Adkisson Hahn Husmann and others joining in celebrations at multiple houses.
New Year Guests Fill Morris Richards Home In Weekend Visit
Morris Richards hosted New Year guests including Mr. and Mrs. Harland Fusby of Stromsburg Mrs. Dora Burge son of Central City Mr. and Mrs. Rex Fusby and sons of West Point Mr. and Mrs. J H Gustafson and Neil Beecher of Bloomfield New Jersey LaVern Richards and Neil Beecher departed for Los Angeles to work Mr and Mrs J H Gustafson attended a birthday gathering for Mrs Gustafson Monday evening A large visit from Corpus Christi Texas included Mr and Mrs Paul Englehardt and relatives from Gresham Sunnyvale and San Francisco activity wrapped up with travel from Lincoln by plane.
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Morris Richards
Harland Fusby
Stromsburg
Dora Burgeson
Central City
Rex Fusby
West Point
J. H. Gustafson
Neil Beecher
Bloomfield
New Jersey
LaVern Richards
Los Angeles
Calif
Douglass
Sunnyvale
California
San Francisco
Lincoln
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Tisaaarer
William H. Norton
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Bert Gissler
National Fidelity
W. Ralph
Stanley Oquist
Vance Toline
Ronald Sarow
Oscar Jones
Fred Yungdahl
Kenneth Peterson
Ansel Fredrickson
St. Francis Hospital
Grand Island
Frank Thelander
Wesley and
Vernon
Carl Cederburg
Sans
Creichton Anderson
Placentia
Axel Anderson
Marshall
Levert Oquist
Lloyd Boden
Randy
Walter Jones
Ralph Jones
Gerald Obrist
Paul Gustafson
Elvwn Vunedahl
Norfolk
Norfolk College
Stan Lee Moore
Theodore Nelson
Rock Island
Illinois
Bonnie
Vincent Krol
Chindgren
Leslie Adelson
Judy
Dick Larson
Cindy
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Onawa
Iowa
Henry Thelander
John Gestrine
Carolyn Jones
Fremont Colese
David Jones
State Farm
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Home Office
Lemington, Illinois
Lone Star
Mildred Hahn
L. Leimser
Ivan Hecker
Lawrence Leimser
Oscar Adkisson
Louis A. Schmidt
C. W. Leimser
Carroll Hahn
Bonnie and
Allyn Leimser
Harold Husmann
David City
C. R. Peterson
Eldon W. Anderson
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Grant Ave. York
Walter HK. Koehler
Gro. A. Hormel L
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