Colorful Old West Lives Again In Omaha Museum
In Omaha Union Pacific Historical Museum the Old West comes alive with manuscripts, relics, weapons, furniture and maps. Exhibits show the rail line’s role in westward expansion and feature a Lincoln collection, era firearms, cattle branding irons, Indian handiwork and a telegraph note about the Promontory Summit completion. Curator Ruth Cultra Hamilton notes the museum honors great men while history remembers the work of pioneering women.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific’sistorical Museum
Com Any
Union
Ruth Cultra Hamilton
Jim” Bridger
Buffalo Bill” Cody
Lincoln
West
Promontory Summit
Grenville M. Dodge
Oliver Ames
Ranking the great college football coaches of 1948
The piece notes Red Blaik of Army as deserving a top award for three undefeated Army seasons, lists prominent coaches like Neyland, Leahy, Snavery, and Harlow, and reflects on how hard coaches work, shaping players and character across decades.
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Red Blaik
Army
Red
Ust
Neyland
Tennessee
Black
Harlow
Harvard
Little
Columbia
Orister
Michigan
Thomas
Alabama
Leahy
Notre Dame
McMillin
Indiana
Neely
Rice
Butts
Georgia
McKeever
Cornell
Wade
Duke
Snavery
North Carolina
Oddll
Yale
le. Brucheriec
U.C
Red Drew
Mississippi
Red Sanders
Vanderbilt
Paul Bryant
Kentucky
Blind Evangelist From Painesville Demonstrates Daring Independence
In Painesville Ohio Robert Bixel, blind since age seven after a stone injury, works at a rubber plant and serves as a traveling evangelist. He uses a guide dog to aid daily tasks, helps with carpentry and greeting cards, mows, tends the furnace, hunts raccoon, fishes, rides, and plans to learn typing to manage extensive correspondence while maintaining a busy church and community role.
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Painesville
Ohio
Robert Bixel
Bixel
Ares
Riverview Church
Novelty
Varied Surplus Items Test WAA Ingenuity
War Assets Administration handles a wide range of surplus material including a New Orleans report of 9 black diamonds and a large stock of pure silver recovered from a demolished magnesium plant at Lake Charles Louisiana. The diamonds are not for sale and the silver serves strategic uses in precision machinery.
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Minn
War Assets Administration
WAA
Midwest
New Orleans
Lake Charles
Defense Industry
College Coeds Are Free Baby Sitters
In Corvallis Oregon State College coeds are offering free babysitting through the college Red Cross chapters. Service is regulated to 10 p.m. on school nights and 12 30 a.m. on Saturdays with no charges.
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Corvallis
Obe
Oregon State College
College Red Cross
Eped
Hidden Home Care Tips From a Bygone Guide
A scanned reminiscence offers practical hints for preserving leather cane items with oil, restoring fabric suitcases with lacquer, and easing winter window cleaning with denatured alcohol. It covers garment snaps, chalk guides, machine top stitching, and cleaning corners with a soap-dipped brush.
Still Second and the Troubled Touring Company
The touring troupe proved unpopular at a country theater. After the family audience deserted at intermission, the company split. Two actors headed back to New York, securing passage on a transport. In a canal lock they overheard a crewman remark about “toad of fertilizer and a couple of actors.” Cyril and the other actor wonder if they will ever headline again.
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New York
Jim
Bert
Cyril
Why Take Harsh Laxatives Wake Up Lemon Water
A brief health note promotes a simple remedy for constipation using the juice of a Sunkist Lemon in water on arising. It asserts lemon juice boosts vitamin C intake, fights fatigue, aids digestion, and acts as a mild daily stimulant, encouraging readers to try it for ten mornings.
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Lydia KE
Pinkhim
Pinkham
Lydia
Sunkist
California
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WNU
Plains
Nauvoo
Utah
Texas
Ellsworth
Kas
Promised Land
Ill
Dirk Harlow
Jock Sutherland
Steve Owen
Greasy Neale
Lonnie Stagg
Lonnie
Pop Warner
Knute Rockne
Yost
Percy Haughton
Yost Yost
Minnesota
Chicago
Rock
Bob Zuppke
Uwlinois
Tack Hardwick
Haughton
Percy
Dan McGugin
Bierman
Rabel
Bony
Eee Locke Stove Company
West Eleventh St
Kansas City
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!