Memories Of The Past From 1914 Community Notes
A collage of 1914 memories mentions an 83 lb birth to the Greenwood family, RF Starr as 1914 Jefferson County Register of Deeds candidate, Edwin Kilesmeier visiting relatives, local city gas and coke work, and social exchanges including huckleberries from Indiana. Joy Reinhart, Department of the Interior staffer and law student, returns to announce a 25 year-ago visit, with references to Mrs Babb and Omaha visit, and reminiscences of 1914 picnics, remodelings by Darr, and attendees at a 1914 Chau tauqua in Fairbury with various local names.
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RF Starr
Office of Register of Deeds
Jefferson County
Edwin Kilesmeier
Edward
City Gas and Coke Company
Milwaukee
Joy Reinhart
Joy
Department of the Interior
Washington
National Capitol
Forty Years Ago World in a Small Nebraska Note
A Rec ord item recalls 1899 events in Beatrice and Diller. John Zook played bass with a tuba at a county picnic. Dr H M Hepperlin married Rosa Belle Warner on Aug 8 1899. A ME church gathering lacked a preacher as Rev Covel failed to arrive. County convention nominees listed include E L Cline for Clerk SR Merrill for Treasurer and others. Merrill declined and was later elected.
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H M Hepperlin
Beatrice
Harbine
Rosa Belle Warner
Rev
Covel of
Ellis
E L Cline
Treas
SR Merrill
E E Boner
W B .Cropsey
S W Dodge
Davis
Merrill
Fifty Years Ago in Steele City Local Notes
Fifty years past a daughter born to Mr and Mrs E L Loock on August 8. Geo Clarks five year old son fell from a corn crib and lost his arm above the elbow. Miss Bert Ballard organized a Loyal Temperance Legion lodge at Steele City. Steele City schools hired Rev E Cressman as principal with Misses Belle Patterson and Ella Willy as primary teachers. Amos Quinn ran as the fourteenth sheriff candidate of Gage County, confident others would fall short.
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Geo Clark
Bert Ballard
Lodge of the Loyal Temperance Legion
Steele City
Rev E Cressman
Belle Patterson
Ella Willy
Amos Quinn
Gage County
Diphtheria Death in Chicago Visits and 19th Century Wine Receipt
A Chicago family loses their daughter Pearl to diphtheria during a visit at R V Folkers in Diller. Burial occurs at Prairie Home Cemetery. The piece also reprints a 50 year old wine receipt from a WCTU local president advising grape juice as a tonic and instructions for making twelve quarts of wine noting fermentation if jars are left open.
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B F Willhoit
Chicago
Pearl
Diphteria
Folkers
Diller
Prairie Home Cemetery
The
Record
WCTU
Europe
Poisoned Arrow Kills Ponce de Leon
Ponce de Leon died from a poisoned arrow according to the report. The incident is described with emphasis on a fatal defensive act and the weapon used.
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Ponce
de Leon
Meaning and notable figures named Adam across history
The text outlines the Hebrew meaning of Adam as man of red earth and primitive as a secondary sense. It lists historic and literary figures named Adam, including Adam de la Halle, Adam Smith, Adam Clarke, Adam Black, Adam L. Gordon, Adam Thompson, and Adam W. Wagnallis, with brief notes on their roles and eras.
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Adam
Man
Red
Palestine
Seth
Florence A. Cowles
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Adam de la Halle
Robin
Marion
Adam Smith
Viscount Duncan
Camperdown
Adam Clarke
Adam Black
Edinburgh
Constable
Macauley
Adam L. Gordon
Adam Thompson
Cincinnati
Adam W. Wagnallis
Lithopolis
Ohio
Literary Digest
Story of Growth of West in American Agriculture
A Chicago Tribune writer notes the westward expansion of American agriculture from colonial lands to the Pacific, highlighting the Louisiana Purchase and Mexican treaties as opening vast areas and the 1862 Homestead Act drawing settlers. By 1890, durable soil conservation became essential as fertile lands fenced and farmed.
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Pacific Coast
Chicago Tribune
England
Mexico
United States
California
New Mexico
Arizona
Texas
Battle of the Herrings and Pig War explained
The National Geographic Society notes the Battle of the Herrings occurred in the fifteenth century during the English French siege of Orleans with herring transport as the cause. The Pig War refers to the early 1900s tariff dispute between Austria and Serbia over Serbian pig exports.
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National Geographic Society
Orleans
Austria
Serbia
Lighthouses From Ancient Egypt to Pharos of Alexandria
The earliest lighthouses appear in lower Egypt built by Libyans and Cushites with beacon fires managed by priests. Lesches references a lighthouse at Sigéurn in the Troad, while the Pharos of Alexandria, once 600 feet tall, was a marvel until earthquake damage in the 13th century. the site remained visible until about 1350 and gave the term pharos to lighthouses and pharology to lighthouse science.
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Egypt
Lower
Lesches
Sigéeurn
Cape _Indhisari
Troad
Pharos
Alexandria
Also Mentioned on This Page
Walter Greenwood
Wilson
Congress
F D Carr
A M Diller
Darr
J B Wright
Bruce Weigel
Ray Green
Anna Hill
Humboldt
Erva Blair
Mel Patton
Lincoln
E Showers
B C Burkett
Odell
Chautauqua
Fairbury
Dr. Ellis
Alex Ballard
LO Ballard
Dr Bauquess
A E Price
Rigdon
Tom
O J Mayborn
Jim Pickard
F P Tatman
P Remley
Christie Thompson
A D Stotts
John Zook
Mr. and
Ars. E. L. Loock
York
Captain Proske
Frank Buck
Lily
Eastman Kodaks and Films
Dr.o.c. Diehl
Diller, Nebraska
Frank A. Houston
Bonded Abstracter
Fairbury, Nebr
J. Monroe Davis
Fairbury, Nebraska
S. C. Hutchinson
General Hospital
C. E. Rice, M. D
Odell, Nebraska
Blue Valley
Credit Ass’n
Allen’s Store
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