Local families share Fourth of July and birthday celebrations
A parade of visits and gatherings across Nebraska from Stromsburg to Schuyler and beyond marks Independence Day cheer. Amel Lind and Lloyd Lind families host a July Fourth supper and Amel Lind’s birthday observance while relatives travel to Sioux Falls Omaha Lincoln Aurora and Washington DC for work or family events. Others attend dinners and birthdays at homes in Stromsburg Maple Park Schuyler Hastings and Grand Island as relatives and friends celebrate wed dings anniversaries and pretty summer visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amel Lind Anidlushters
Lloyd Lind
Amel Lind
Jill
Winnie
Sioux
South Dakota
Omaha
Merle Stromberg
Lloyd Stromberg
Rolland Stromberg
Leonard Stromberg
Lincoln
Marjorie Benke
Aurora
Robert Stromberg
Washington, D.C
Bailey Stouffer
Maple Park
Clark Stouffer
Orison Streeter
Minnesota
W. A. Newton
Ed Swalley
Stromsburg
Bert Benjamin
Mable Benjamin
Chauncey Gustafson
Georgee Wurtz
Mia
Will Kroger
Lloyd Kroger
N E McNaught
Schuyler
Tom Batley
Bob Branting
Grand Island
Chifford Branting
Donald Upton
John Adams
Hastings
Frank Fossberg
Ralph Upton
Donald Springer
Harold Green
Ellen Anderson
Wualter Gerkensmeyer
Seward
Clarence Rahrs
Raymond Sagehorn
Gary
Paul Sagehorn
Sagehorn
Gordon Fossberg
Wallace Sandell
E. B. Conklin
Earl ’Rasmussen
Hans Larson
Central City
Jof Ostberg
Coon
Fossil Amphibians and Early Reptiles Added to Biuseum Exhibit
The Chicago Natural History Museum expanded its paleontology displays with about 16 specimens including an unusually long fossil, illustrating amphibians from the late Devonian to the Pennsylvanian. The exhibit highlights the rise of land vertebrates from lobe finned fish and the eventual path to dinosaurs, mammals, and humans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Patterson
Chicago Natural History Museum
Lime and Lime Without Manure Wont Keep Soil Fertile
Old-Time New Englanders knew lime alone fails to sustain soil productivity. Dr. Wm A Albrecht of Missouri University cites 1846 hours Coles man and notes farmers used lime to release nutrients but gained no crop-derived return. The adage lime and lime without manure makes father rich but son poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Wm. A Albrecht
Missouri University College of Agriculture
Hours Colesman
Albrecht
Theories on Petroleum Formation Attract Geology Interest
Dr Benjamin T Brooks of New York explains at an American Chemical Society meeting that ancient lakes seas and shorelines trapped vegetable and animal matter beneath mud and sand, preserving it to form oil. Geologists seek formation insights to guide future oil field discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin T. Brooks
New York
American Chemical Society
European corn borer spread traced from 1917 to 1947
The article notes early 1917 sightings near Boston of light colored worms injuring sweet corn, signaling the European corn borer’s arrival. It details its westward and southward spread by 1940 1943 and 1947 with losses of 6.5 33 and 97 million dollars, and marks the western limit west of the Missouri river and southern limit in Tennessee and North Carolina. It also includes shoe care tips for patent leather noting warming before wear and vinegar cleaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Great Lakes
Ohio River
North Carolina
Missouri River
Tennessee
Thiel in the Night Thiel in the Night N. G. Adlington
Readable fragments show a local feature likely about Thiel’s appearance at night time by N. G. Adlington, with emphasis on event or column framing in a historical newspaper. The piece reflects period tone and local reader interest in the subject.
Music Room Mystery Ends Bank Heist Attempt
An old caretaker collapses the gunman’s plan to steal a Van Gogh during a tense break in at Mister John’s. A piano performance by an unseen hand disrupts the thief, who flees as the room plunges into darkness. The caretaker reveals a hidden item and secures the scene. Community notices follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
WNU Features
Polk Churches Advertise Sunday Services and Events
Local church notices list morning worship times and Sunday School at Polk area congregations including Hordville Baptist, First Baptist, Milford E&L Olson, Arborville Congregational. Entries note Bible camps, Young Peoples meetings, Bible studies, and a Children’s Hour sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk & Swede Plain
Poll
Polk Bible Camp
Swede Plain
Polk
Hordville Baptist Church
Fedick A. Anderson
1000 Bible School
First Baptist Church
Paul Lemke
Walter J. Nelson
Auger Ioan
Milford E&. Olson
Young Peoples
Arborville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pure Food Grocery
HOTEL
Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska's
New-Os
Hotal
Bemberg
Hazel’s Apparel
Stromsburg, Nebraska
Biuseum
Thiel
N. G. Adlington
Tyes
Uva
Hoavyville
Neds Pearson
WSCS
Paul Hernsmeyer
Milford
Harold Nelson
Lindwood
Calif
Daniel Garner
St Louis
Clarence Nelson
Norfolk
Earl Rasmussen
Ta-ha-Zouka Park
F. E. Peterson
Turlock
California
Clarence Bryant
Walter Nelson
Frank Nelson
Neil McNaught
Billie
Oscar Jones
Earl Stevens
Gorcon Rossberg
J. T. Samuelson
Don Johnson
Daugh*ter
Polk Churches
Jets
Taylor’s Fancy
Hills Bros
Ball Dome
Kerr Flats
Durkees
Farmer's Store
Chevrolet
Fisher
Atistegwis
Polk, Nebraska
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!