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Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“Annual Review of Winslow,” including “Winslow Grows Very Rapidly,” business and church accounts, a business-district photograph, and the J. F. Brandert store photograph credited to Johnson.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“Annual Review of Winslow.” Businesses, homes, railway trade, church schooling and photographs. The church text uses St. John’s, while the photograph is captioned St. Paul’s.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“Anniversary Party in Winslow Hall Honors Groenes.” Fifty-first wedding-anniversary gathering; indexed under Fremont Tribune by Newspapers.com.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“Repair Problem in Flood’s Wake.” Reports that the Burlington bridge near Winslow had been lost the preceding night.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Initial report of the Winslow State Bank hold-up, including the first estimate of stolen cash.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“Winslow Wants School” and “Winslow Items.” Proposed District 85, store expansion, hotel patronage and agricultural trade.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“Town Has Incorporated,” reporting the county board’s approval of Winslow’s incorporation that afternoon.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Pat Waters, “Lucky Winslow kids! They’re first out of school.” Sixteen pupils at the two-room District 85 school, residents’ closure petition, end-of-year events and photographs.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
Dean Jacobs, “Welcome to Winslow” / “Residents find town great place for families.” Walk across the village, post-office visit and residents’ accounts of local business changes. Continuation: https://www.newspapers.com/image/551260526/.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
William H. Buss and Thomas T. Osterman, pp. 83–84. Burlington route and reproduced correspondence from A. H. Hogeland about track laying and railway service.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
William H. Buss and Thomas T. Osterman, pp. 171 and 279. Plat chronology, incorporation, village officers, utilities and businesses; the two passages give different townsite dates.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
William H. Buss and Thomas T. Osterman, p. 114. Winslow State Bank and Farmers State Bank: establishment, officers, capital, premises and the December 1916 robbery.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“News Notes from Winslow.” Baseball game with pupils at Immanuel Lutheran School.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“News Notes from Winslow.” Two basketball goal posts supplied to the school by the Hooper Lions Club.
Cited in Winslow, Nebraska: The Life of a Village Beside the Elkhorn
“News Notes from Winslow.” The two rooms’ Christmas program at Firemen’s Hall.
