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Author, president and top dog of Railway Extension is a husky, happy-go-lucky, talkative automobile dealer named Ed O'Shea. Weary of turning away potential customers who came to his Lincoln, Neb. agency from the next-door bus depot and the nearby railroad station to ask whether they could rent a car for a few hours, Dealer O'Shea worked out Railway Extension, took it to the railroads. At present his agency operates its own cars (500) in some 35 cities, has contracts with local drive-yourself agencies in the others...
Grey-haired Martin D. Wilson, a conductor on the Burlington, off duty, was motoring home alone with two geese, two turkeys, two hams last December. At a Richland, Neb. grade crossing he was surprised by a Union Pacific express. Pulling diagonally across the tracks, Conductor Wilson caught his left front wheel between rails, stalled, leaped out, fled. He was safe when the train, doing 70, smacked the auto and left the rails, derailing eight cars, tearing up 300 feet of track, killing the engineer and fireman...
...Broke and hungry on Thanksgiving Day, 1905, McVittie shelled out two of his last three nickels for coffee & doughnuts in a Grand Island, Neb. cafe, vowed to eat a doughnut a day in memory of his plight, has done...
...foster son, grandmother of 22 offspring, blushed and stammered "I am just scared" when she was chosen American Mother for 1940. 1935's Mother: Mrs. Fletcher M. Johnson, Gainesville, Ga.; 1936's: Mrs. James R. Smith, Claremont, Calif.; 1937's: Mrs. Carl R. Gray, Omaha, Neb.; 1938's: Mrs. Grace Noll Crowell, Dallas, Tex.; 1939: Mrs. Elias Compton, Wooster, Ohio...
...strange week for Southerners. Outside the South it was cold enough, but not unseasonably so, as snow covered most of the Eastern States. It was so cold in Lincoln, Neb. that, according to one scientist there, the University of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium shrank four inches, reducing its seating capacity by 29. Little grumbling went with bad weather there; Nebraska's drought had been so bad that a heavy snowstorm brought Statewide rejoicing. Miles City, Mont, was reported the coldest place in the U. S. last week, with 27° below...