Descriptions of Forties Events and Local Happenings
Forty years ago this week memories surface of a roan horse injured in a runaway, Charley Kelley visiting Omaha and Council Bluffs, Henry Henrichs joining the Great American Shows, and a severe hailstorm that devastated crops from Fitzgerald's ranch area southeastward. Reports name farmers struck by large stones, a man knocked unconscious, and local preparations at Endicott. The era notes include Weire winning money at an Omaha shoot, Colman sporting a white hat, a smith building extensions, and a lettuce head record. The Burlington depot at Diller gains a porch for the agent Scott Merrill, with Wright and Bradt among early bartering participants and various cattle shipments listed.
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Fitzgerald
New Hampshire Bowlder Resembles Great Skull
A reported giant bowlder in New Hampshire resembles a skull or ant in shape. Measured at twenty by forty feet, it sits on a slate ledge high on a Windham peak. Glacial history and distant sources are cited by a New Hampshire Globe correspondent.
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New Hampshire
Windham
Heirloom Elephant Tale and Nairobi Chase Fragment
A writer in Pearson's Weekly notes the removal of an heirloom elephant mate remains amid a yearslong legend. A game in Nairobi Kenya features men pursuing a prize while a relic from a dead mate stirs trouble.
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Pearson's Weekly
Nairobi
Kerya
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Myrna Loy
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Paramount Newa
Bob Burns
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Marx Bros
Majestic Theatre
Joe E. Brown
Buck Jones
F. Hartzell
Charley Kelley
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Henry Henrichs
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Dick Folkers Zot
C. J. Weire
Ad. Thomas
Pickard
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Capt. Andrews
Price Bros
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Clark’s Store
Diller, Nebraska
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Ened
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Ay Waite
Beau Brammel
Side Gore
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Peano
Kathleen
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Beauty
America
Kathleen Norris
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