Editors Notebook

While gathering information for this week’s installment of the First National Bank failure series an advertisement placed in the Nuckolls County Herald in 1904 caught my attention.

I don’t know about you but I am tired of winter and having to deal with ice underfoot. With a headline of California, the advertisement placed by the Rock Island Railroad seemed to describe the winter of 2024. It read:

“Pick up any paper you please and items like these greet your eyes:

“Bitter cold and high wind”

“Mercury near zero mark”

“Cold wave covers country”

“Three men and women perish and may persons are fros...

 

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