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Diller Era Recaps Local Life From 40 Years Ago
A retrospective recalls 1894 Beatrice Red Willow County events. Notes include Nelson at Crete summer Bible school, Omaha Indians celebration near Decantur, Joe Sadle typhoid closure of his meat market, Beatrice Starch gold medal, a July brick kiln firing, and Diiler Brick criticisms. Also items on school reports, wages, tax levies, local fairs, rain events, a Beatrice firm benefiting from a railroad strike, a Beatrice bank beggar report, an early lamp fire near Clark & Weather, and a found Watham watch case reuniting Charley Green with his gift watch.
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J. W. Hayworth
Diller
tJenver Dick Wild West
Sioux Indian Medicine Company
Campbell Brothers
Fred Hatfield
Lee Greier
Verge Campbell
Fairbury
Hatfield
Jefferson County
Steele City
Endicott
Reynolds
Jansen
Plymouth
Daykin
Harbine
Powell
Charley Green
Charley