Nebraska State Historical Society

Type: Organization

Name: Nebraska State Historical Society

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Today in labor history: Homestead Act signed, for good and bad

tags: labor, history, national, U.S., Native Americans, African AmericansOn May 20, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, opening government-owned land to small family farmers, who became known as "homesteaders." It was a freedom opportunity ... [Published People's World - May 20 2013]

Entities: Homestead, Squatter, Chrisman (United States), African-Americans

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Nebraska State Historical Society

'Seedling mile' of Lincoln Highway placed on historic register

World-Herald News Service Star HeraldGRAND ISLAND -- The first paved section of the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The seedling mile, a 315-foot piece of pavement on the eastern edge of Grand Island, ... [Published Scottsbluff Star-Herald - May 18 2013]

Entities: Grand Island (United States), Nebraska State Historical Society, Historical Society

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Warren E Buffett

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz: A Young Warren Buffett, the Stock Market and TV

The Oracle of Omaha explained stock market psychology to a local television reporter more than 50 years ago, a new documentary reveals. The 1962 film clip was discovered earlier this spring at the Nebraska State Historical Society archives in Lincoln, ... [Published Huffington Post - May 06 2013]

Entities: Warren E Buffett, Jeremy Harris, Omaha (Nebraska, United States), Stock Market

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Gothenburg students earn World War II scholarships

Gothenburg High School seniors Madison Costello and Morgan Kowalewski are among eight winners of the Nebraskans of World War II Scholarships and the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Award.The students were selected from more than 50 schools across the state for ... [Published Gothenburg Times.com - May 03 2013]

Entities: World War II, Göteborg, Barney Oldfield, Nebraska State Historical Society

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Historical Society

Emrich, M. Douglas

M. Douglas EmrichM. Douglas Emrich, 89, died Saturday, April 27, 2013, at Mechanicsville Nursing and Rehab Center from congestive heart failure. Memorial services at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 4, at First United Church of Christ, Tipton, by Pastor David Lorenzen. ... [Published Cedar Rapids Gazette - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Cedar, Historical Society, Nebraska State Historical Society, Radar Picket

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

US Department of Housing & Urban Development

Red Cloud gets $300K for Cather Center

Z 2013-04-24T11:05:09Z By the Lincoln Journal Star JournalStar.com17 minutes ago • By the Lincoln Journal StarThe Nebraska Department of Economic Development has awarded the city of Red Cloud a $300,000 Community Development Block Grant to renovate ... [Published Lincoln Journal Star - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Willa Cather, Red Cloud (United States), US Department of Housing & Urban Development, Nebraska State Historical Society, Nebraska Department of Economic Development

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...Future plans for the site include placement of Burma Shave style signage " donated by Don Deitemeyer of the Hall County Historical Society " along the road and sowing wildflowers native to Nebraska beside the pavement

'Seedling mile' of Lincoln Highway placed on historic register [Published Scottsbluff Star-Herald - May 18 2013]

...first contacted about the events of early June, 1962 and the possibility of an interview at that time, Buffett's Assistant Debbie Bosanek wrote: "Warren doesn't have any record of this and doesn't believe he did one." Buffett has not responded since our team shared the clip with him and later to the public on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz: A Young Warren Buffett, the Stock Market and TV [Published Huffington Post - May 06 2013]