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Lincoln General Duo Going West
Miss Leslie Marie Francke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie A. Francke, plans to leave Aug. 3 for the West Coast to further her education.
Miss Francke, who has her degree in medical technology and has been teaching at Lincoln General Hospital, plans to do research chemistry in medical technology at either Stanford or the University of California at Berkeley.
Accompanying Miss Francke will be Miss Marie Lorraine Parachini of Ft. Morgan, Colo., also of Lincoln General Hospital, who plans to work for her Bachelor's degree
Lincoln Evening Journal, July 26, 1961 - Contributed by: Peggy Luce
Bryan's Public Park
Twelve acres of the Silver Champion's Fairview Farm to be Given Over to the Project
Lincoln, Neb. - Feb. 4, W. J. Bryan will build a park on his farm east of Lincoln.
Twelves acres east of Fairview will be given over to the project. Picnic parties and concessions will be allowed free use of the park. Work is to begin on it early in the spring. While it will not be a public park in the strictest sense of the word, Mr. Bryan proposes to have it easy of access to any party desiring to use it. It is located between the interurban trolley running from Lincoln to Collegeview, Neb.
Walnut Valley Times, El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas, February 6, 1903, Volume XXXIV, Number 3
Contributed by: Peggy Thompson
Pie Alcohol Bill Beaten Lincoln, Neb., March 19. – (AP) The house of representatives today turned down pleas to restore mince pie and fruit cakes their traditional alcoholic ingredients.
Branding a senate bill to permit bakers and food manufacturers right to possess alcohol for compounding food products as the “opening wedge” of wet sympathizers to obtain repeal of dry acts. Representative Troy L. Davis led a successful attack which defeated it, 65 to 28.
The Evening State Journal – Lincoln Daily News, Lincoln, Nebraska, Wednesday, March 15, 1916
Preacher Tarred and Feathered
Lincoln, Neb., May 30 - A preacher named Byerd was tarred and feathered by a mob at Franklin, Neb., for beating his daughter, who had informed her mother of his adulterous relations with other women.
The Bismarck Tribune, June 1, 1883 Contributed and transcribed by: Amanda Jowers
Senatorial Vote in Nebraska
Lincoln, Jan 18, - The national conflict has been formally inaugurated. The first ballot was taken in the two houses. Thirty-one induviduals were favored with a complimentary vote, but the leaders were Powers, for the Independents; Paddock, for the Republicans, and Keiper, for the Democrats. Their votes were respectively in the aggregate - 30, 30, and 5.
Decatur - The Daily Review, January 19, 1893
Nebraska Sheriff Suspended in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 6
Nebraska Sheriff Suspended
Lincoln, Neb., April 6 -- Sheriff J. L. Schelk of Gage County was suspended from office today by order of Governor McKelvie. On information contained in affidavits that he violated prohibition laws by selling liquor.
Impeachment proceeding charging among other things, opression and extortion were started against the sheriff at Beatrice yesterday.
The Deluth News Tribune - April 7, 1921
Its termini will be Lincoln and Omaha.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 Transcribed and contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 Transcribed and contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
The explosion shattered her right hand. She probably will die.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 Transcribed and contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Jacob Klamm who was refused a license appealed to the district court.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 Transcribed and contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Broad admitted taking 11 letters Monday.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 23, 1908 Page 2 Transcribed and contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 23, 1908 Page 2 Transcribed and contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Lincoln, Neb.—Judge Frost of the district court Wednesday refused habeas corpus for Fred Swan, an inmate of the state Industrial school at Kearney.
Had the application been granted practically every boy in the school would have been freed on the grounds on which petition was based.
Notice of immediate appeal to the supreme court was given.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 2, 1908 Page 2 Transcribed and contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Monroe Couple Hospitalized Mr. and Mrs. Walter Groteluschen of Monroe are in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Lincoln suffering from injuries sustained in a head on collision on the Cornhusker Highway just east of Lincoln.
Police said that the Groteluschen car, headed west, collided with a car driven by John Clark, 56, an Omaha iron worker, who was passing a gasoline transport.
Columbus Daily Telegram - August 21, 1959
Mr. J. R. Chessington After spending Xmas holidays with his mother and friends at Lincoln and Omaha, Neb., is again shaking hands with Thermopolis friends, and reports many inquiries on the outside concerning the possibilities and opportunities in and about the coming metropolis of Wyoming.
Thermopolis (WY) Independent, January 04, 1907 - Sub. by K.T.
H. E. Cornell Of Lincoln, Neb., was among the outside visitors this week.
Thermopolis (WY) Independent, January 04, 1907 - Sub. by K.T.
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