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Saturday February 2, 2036

In Memoriam

Born this day in history:

1835 Clara Underwood
1840 Maria M. (Tanner) Walther
1854 Kate (Hiestand) Fitch

1861 John H. Speck

1884 Charles M. Mowrey

1889 Howard J. Allen

1891 Oscar E. Olson
1893 Frank H. Owen
1894 Omar Patterson

1900 James "Jim" Eckstein
1900 Leon O. Tillotson

’18
1901 Louis J. Klein

1904 Mabel (Banks) Walters

’21
1909 Alice M. Blomquist

’25
1910 Paul T. Howard
1918 Carl Jensen
1919 Aliene (Johnson) Stewart
1923 William Snyder
1943 LeRoy M. Thomas

Died this day in history:

1916 Margaret B. (Payne) Downard
1933 Anna (Murphy) Weaver

1944 MaryBelle (Romp) Dryden

1959 Iva Z. (McCarl) McMichael

1990 Lucy V. A. Davidson

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1997 Dora (Babcock) (Walther) Davison

1999 Elaine (Walker) Jenkins

2003 Frances "Frankie" (Major) Brown

2012 Mary L. (Tillotson) Thompson

’42

News from this week in Farnam history:

2/2
  – Community Program Well Attended (1939)
  – Is Not Insane (1896)
  – Killed Instantly (1923)
2/3
  – Polio Carnival a Success (1949)
2/4
  – Hold Husking Bee (1943)
  – Stebbins Brothers (1915)
  – To Serve No. Platte Canteen (1943)
2/5
  – Bonds For New High School (1925)
  – Carnival a Success (1948)
  – Infantile Paralysis Drive (1942)
  – March of Dimes Carnival (1953)
2/6
  – 127th Field Artillery Trails (1919)
  – Infantile Paralysis Drive (1947)
  – Infantile Paralysis Report (1941)
  – Mrs. Guerin Fatally Burned (1947)
2/7
  – Old Landmark to be Removed (1929)
  – Publisher's Block, 1929 (1929)
  – Route to Gothenburg (1929)
  – T. B. Carnival A Success (1946)

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Homestead events on this day in history

Final proof filed:

1887 Orin E Doane

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