Northland Bus Line Expands Interstate Service
The Northland Transportation Company gains a new interstate bus route between Minneapolis and Omaha via Estherville Spirit Lake Milford Spencer Storm Lake and Minbon Valley. Night schedules run with the southbound leaving Minneapolis 7 16 pm and arriving Omaha 9 30 am the northbound leaving Omaha 9 30 pm and reaching Minneapolis 10 55 am. The system links with Pickwich Greyhound at Omaha, uses 386 passenger parlor cars, and covers about 3800 miles with 260 buses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Omaha
Estherville
Spirit Lake
Milford
Spencer
Storm Lake
Mis- Boirn Valley
Gates of Death Never Opened for These Two
Pathinder Magazine discusses biblical figures Elijah and Enoch who were said not to die but translated to heaven. It notes Hebrews 11 5 and 2 Kings 2 11 as the basis for translation rather than death and argues Methuselah’s father lived without dying according to Genesis 5 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elijah
Enoch
Jellsha
Earth
Methuselah
Hnoch
Endch
Pathinder Magazine
Speed Tests of 19th Century Stage Drivers
Edward Martin recalls how stage drivers carried the President's message, with contracts tied to speed. Dave Gordon reportedly delivered Washington to Wheeling, 32 miles in 2 hours 20 minutes, changing teams thrice. Bil Noble, deceased in the 1880s, claimed the best time for Wheeling to Hagerstown, 185 miles in 18 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Martin
the United States Daily
Post Office Department
Dave Gordon
Washington
Wheeling
Tle
Bil Noble
Hagerstown
Princeton's First Ivy Planting of 1877 Class Day
The 1877 Princeton class planted the first ivy during graduation week in June 1977. An accompanying ivy oration defined ivy as perpetual remembrance of Princeton and the class, with the vine later growing at Nassau Hall and the library. One spray was sent from William of Nassau’s castle in Germany, linking the ivy to Nassau Hall’s 1756 naming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Nassau Hall
Germany
William of Nassau
Prince of Orange
Origin of Tile At the Clope of Argos in 272 B. G.
A fragment from a housetop killed Epirus king shaping tile history. Tile is burnt clay a carefully proportioned mix of clays and minerals formed and fired in a kiln until hardened and cohesive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clope
Argos
Epirus
Nile
Charta Highlights Key Magna Charta Provisions
The Magna Charta limits royal power by ensuring no freeman is imprisoned without lawful judgment by peers or due process. It restricts taxation to the common council and forbids arbitrary scutage or aid. The charter also rebukes abuses of the king's feudal authority and promotes legal rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charta
Black Hills Traditions and Native Six Nations History
The Black Hills of South Dakota hold a deep tribal history with the Sioux Cheyenne Crow Arapahoe Pawnee and Mondan nations contending for Pahg Sapa the Mountains that are Black. Indigenous medicinal springs were once valued as sacred gifts later ceded to the United States by treaty in 1876.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hills
South Dakota
United States
Boy asks lawyer father for advice fee memory
A child asks his famed attorney dad if he charges for family advice. The father replies that he does not, and the boy then probes how the father earned a dollar as a boy.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Northland
John Kersbergen
Des Moines Register
Financial World
FORD
Chevrolet
Pontiac
Essex
Dodge
Oldsmobile
Chrysler
Studebaker
Nash
Plymouth de Soto
Whippet Packard
Alo
Wynia
Rock Valley, Iowa
Fisk
Central Auto CO
Rock Valley, Jowa
F. L. Meyers
Sheldon
Rock Valley Grain Co
GIL Meal
Tam
John Coert
CK Valley Tem
Ws. Aetitl
Joe Wattawa
Rock Valley
J. S. Large
B. J. Meylink
Garfield Township
Sioux County
Iowa
J. H Reader
Col
Peter DE Smet
Northwestern Bell Telephone Compa
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!