Looking Back

11.8.23

LOOKING BACK1871Reports reached Fairbury that trains would be running to Beatrice in two weeks. Previous to that travel was by…

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Looking Back 11.1.23

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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Human Skull Discovered Near Site of Historic County Tragedy

This story first appeared in The Fairbury Daily News on June 3, 1965 The cranium or upper part of a…

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Looking Back 10.11.23

1878Fairbury market prices were wheat 68 cents, corn 12 ½ cents, rye 25 cents, barley 45 cents, hogs $2.50, fat…

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Looking Back 9.27.23

1883A creamery was started at Alexandria, a town little more than 10 years old.Featuring the livestock exhibits at the eighth…

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Looking Back

LOOKING BACK1904A Hastings firm was buying potatoes at Powell for shipment at 25 cents a bushel. Hannibal Helvey had raised…

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World War II’s “Second Front”

By Gordon HopkinsSome citizens are looking to resurrect a long vanished item from Fairbury City Park in downtown Fairbury: a…

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Looking Back 8.23.23

1964The Diller Community High School annual was dedicated to Mrs. Dora O. Miller, whose Diller Record page in The Fairbury…

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Looking Back 8.16.23

1952The Jefferson County Fair Board put a call out for all "Old Settlers" who had lived in the county 50…

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Looking Back 8.9.23

1912The county Democratic convention debate over resolutions mirrored the state split in the party between W.J. Bryant and Gilbert Hitchcock…

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