Memories From Fifty Years Ago In Local News And Tales
A collage of recalled events from fifty years past includes a nephew’s wedding in Kansas, doctors joining in Fairbury, a restaurant purchase in Eugene Boillett era, and a Barnum show fire in New Haven. Also notes on street railway franchise bids, 1937 parking needs, a murder acquittal, mob action in Nebraska City, and a mocked admonition about suitors.
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Barnum Show Building
New Haven
Topeka
Fairbury City
Shallenberger
Nebraska City
Cold stove of the era promised extreme chill for summer
A forty year old piece describes a cooling stove using salt ice and a chemical to chill rooms during heat. It warns the device can injure skin on contact. Other notes mention Diller elevators paying large sums for corn and a near house fire caused by a hot flat iron. Cobs priced at 50 cents a load and Mrs. Olive Reiber's paralysis near Steele City.
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Olive Reiber
Steele City
Romance of the Apricot Treason in Oriental Folklore
A playful historical sketch describes the apricot as an innocent appearing fruit linked with plots and buccaneering expeditions. It recounts the fruit’s origins in China and Japan where its glossy foliage and white blossoms are valued as ornamental garden pieces.
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China
Japan
Bird of prey described as striking smaller birds
The narrative describes a raptor that strikes small birds, eats part of the head, then carries the carcass to a tree to impale it. It rarely returns to finish the meal. The bird’s bill is likened to a falcon’s.
Women’s Legal Status in Japan Highlighted
The article asserts that Japanese women lack civil rights, cannot own property, have no say in divorce, and are governed entirely by men from birth to death, detailing a strictly male dominated society.
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Japan
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. Friday
Samuel Clark
Kansas
B. F. Thompson
Fairbury
Pritchett
Eugene Boillett
McMillen
Pitty
Appomatox
Mary Stewart
Mary
George Lichty
Ida
Jesse Miller
Nellie Burkett
Eva Crocker
Eddie Bixby
Robert Steiner
George Henrichs
Supreme Court
Nebraska Railroad Commission
Michigan
Lincoln City
United States Circuit Court
Brewer
Parsond
Omaha
Diller
M. Wright
Elmer Novotny
Beatrice Lumber & Coal Co
Beatrice
S. C. Hutchinson
Diller, Nebraska
Chick Boyes
Long's
Black Bros
Elevator Box
Clark's
Greep Room
Geer Bros
Allensee
Imperial Oil Co
Waggoner Brothers the Diller
Allen
Prunes
Santa Clara
Great Northern
Ibs de
Ratiows
Sunkist
Golden Sas Ince
Creers
Nancy Hall
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