Early Campaigns Showed Mudslinging and Big Rallies Across U.S.
A National Geographic retrospective traces 19th and early 20th century campaign tricks from Washington to Bryan and Roosevelt. It notes taunts over character, forged letters, and the rise of campaign trains and whistle stop speaking as practitioners sought votes.
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George Washington
John Adams
Philadelphia
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
United States
Andrew Jackson
Bryan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Ford
Michigan
Stephen Douglas
Marathon income up again on foreign operations
Marathon Oil reports first half 1976 net income of 72.553 million dollars or 2.42 dollars per share, up 37 percent from 1975. Growth driven by overseas Libyan crude sales and refined product demand in Europe, offset by a 14.1 million hit from weaker deutsche mark. Second quarter earnings rose to 37.079 million dollars or 1.24 dollars per share, up seven percent from 1975.
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Findlay
Ohio
Marathon ,Oil Company
Harold D. Hoopman
Hoopman
Europe
West Germany
United States
Marathon
Notice of Creation of Paving District 117 in Sidney Nebraska
Ordinance No 881 creates Paving District No 117 covering Lodgepole Creek additions in Sidney. Bids due August 5 1976 for forty unit housing project and community building. Objections must be filed within 20 days after August 2 1976. otherwise work, assessments, and contracts proceed. Public bid opening at Sidney City Hall.
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Sidney
Nebraska
Towit
Lodgepole Creek
24Th Avenue
Maple Street
Newton Street
City of
13Th Ave
City Hall
13Th Avenue
Jack J. Budler and Associates
Jeffers St
Suite
North Platte
Central Nebraska
West 31St Street
Kansas City
Missouri
Lincoln Builder Bureau
Lincoln
Dodge
Speer Blvd
Denver
Colorado
Emu Watch Stirs Nebraskans as Australian Farmer Observes
Peter Hanney of Wilga Australia toured western Nebraska farms staying with the Lyndelle Browns in Lorenzo. He notes June and November planting, 27 bushels per acre crops, 23 inches annual rainfall, and wheat price certainty three years ahead. He raises 3,600 acres, warns hail damage and emu risks to uncovered grain trucks.
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Nebraska
Peter Hanney
Wilga
Australia
Lyndelle Browns
Lorenzo
Hanney
Congress faces defense budget clean air and tax debates
Congress will tackle a 1977 defense budget with a B1 bomber purchase pause until February and a review of test data. The Clean Air Act revisions loom as House and Senate votes shift emission standards and auto maker timelines while a voter postcard registration bill advances amid partisan hurdles.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Senate Conference
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ford
House
Frank Moss
Dutah
William L. Scott
R-Va
Studies begin into education in Nebraska
The Nebraska Commission on Coordination of Post Secondary Education launched studies on credit transfer problems and duplication of adult education. Dr Allen Burkhardt will head the transfer study, calling lack of uniformity "pathetic," while Mrs Mary Carey leads the adult education duplication study in Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Nebraska Commission On
JJ Exon
Allen Burkhardt
Norfolk
Mary Carey
Nebraska
Allen Moller
Waverly
Jerome Warner
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Lven
William Henry Harrison
Harrison
Martin van Buren
National Georgraphic Society
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Polk
James A Garfield
New York
Grover Cleveland
James G Blaine
Blaine
Continental Bar
Maine
Cleveland
White House
Benjamin Harrison
William Jennings Bryan
Gordon R. Tobin
Butler Agri
Nebr Telegraph
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Martins
Martin
Bay Wanen
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Robert
Ott
Prome
Hot Paru
Nal
Cate Roberts
Hastings Museum
Platte Valley
Grand Island
Hastings
Teawel Prewiston Department
Feonuma
Jimmy Carter
Waria
Kansas- Nebraska Natural Gas Company
Leonard Snow
Kansas
Howard Hanway
Wyoming
Dallas
Iron
Kansas-Nebraska
Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Insurance
Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company
West
Duane E. Saner
Karl E. Madden
Mobile
Tire Sale
le Spirit
Cmll CE Ate
LMC
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Skelly
Uline
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