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...defects, the chief of which was that Sitting Bull and most of his followers had already ridden off to Canada. But the Army put it into operation with vast enthusiasm. In the fall and winter of 1876 cavalrymen seized 8,567 ponies from baffled, friendly Indians, at Camp Robinson, Neb., and the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian Agencies...
...This the Face? In Lincoln, Neb., an amorous aerial gunner noticed the name "Helen" and a phone number on the wall of a booth, dialed, was greeted with, "Hereafter save your nickels and buy war bonds." They Also Serve ... In Manhattan, Gristede Brothers, grocers, sent two boys with each pushcart load of orders - the extra one to stand guard over the butter...
...four sons of Holland-born Sjoerd Bekins felt fenced in by the family's small moving business in Lincoln, Neb. In 1895, they set out in four directions (Omaha, Texas, California and Washington) to build the biggest moving & storage business in the world. They...
Eight weeks before he died, last year, in his stucco house in McCook, Neb., the late, great ex-Senator George William Norris finished dictating his autobiography. Fighting Liberal is not a great book. His heroic battles in Congress were no longer vivid in its old (83), tired author's mind. Like many another old man, George Norris at the end was reliving his youth. As the story of a boyhood in the frontier, post-Civil War Midwest, Fighting Liberal is authentic Americana...
Dodds' unorthodox style had changed little since he ran his first (and involuntary) race. As a boy in Falls City, Neb., he threw a stone at Lloyd Hahn's passing automobile. When the then great runner stopped to give chase, he could not catch the chunky culprit. But Hahn recognized a future champion when he saw one, made young Dodds his prot...