Looking Back

12.24.25

1969A Topeka, Kansas, youth was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a knife attack on a group of Fairbury…

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Looking Back 10.22.25

1893Artie Speenburg, a Fairbury printer, was helping out at The Plymouth Enterprise.F.A. Curten was planning a new newspaper, The Fairbury…

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Looking Back 9.3

1871A post office was established at Bryant, Jefferson county, Neb., 100 years ago, with Jas. J. Lawrence, postmaster. The Fairbury…

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1875T.J. Kirk and “Mr. Marks” (possibly the Rev. Ives Mark?) each had a store at Rose Creek City, one on…

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1912The Rock Island depot at Thompson burned.The Ford car was about the only model with left-hand drive; nearly all others…

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1880The south bank of the Little Blue River just west of the bridge here was lined with westbound mover wagons.A…

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LOOKING BACK 1913A chain of grocery stores started by Mr. Burleigh of Fairbury failed. One of these stores had been…

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1891Nellie Royce was saved from drowning after she broke through the ice while skating. George Pearl jumped into the water…

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12.11.24

1871The Fairbury Gazette was favorable to the nomination of Horace Greeley for president. Greeley was an American newspaper editor and…

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1894The United States issued $50 billion in 5 percent bonds to make up for government revenues decreased by hard times.…

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