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Posted inDaily News Local Histories

Air Mail Arrives

Visitors in Omaha can get an interesting thrill by going out to the air mail landing field at Fort Crook about midnight and watch Uncle Sam’s flying mailmen come and…
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Posted inUS Civil War

January 29, 1862 – Very Laconic

An amusing sword presentation was made on the 17th by the officers of the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania to their Colonel, Wm. Sirwell. The presentation speech of Captain Gillespie was: "Here we…
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