Omaha Newspaper man is Hurt in Accident
Special to the Star
- Omaha, Aug. 29, -
J. D. ("Dad") Weaver, an old time Omaha newspaperman, secretary
of the Knights of
Ak-Sar-Ben. was seriously injured in an automobile collision near Casey,
La., late yesterday.
George Brandeis, an Omaha business man driving one of the cars,
Harry Rosworth, Omaha, and the members of the family of M. S. Moat of
Missouri Valley, La., were hurt, but not seriously.
The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917
Omaha Student Officers Leave for Army Camps
Special to the Star
- Omaha, Neb., Aug. 29 --
The Union station again Tuesday was the scene of a large number
of khaki clad young men on their way to assume new duties in the services of Uncle Sam.
The score of Omaha young men who were given commissions in the United States Army
after graduation at Fort Snelling left Tuesday for Camp Dodge near Des Moines. Several of
the newly appointed officers went to Camp Dodge Monday, but the greater number left today,
as it was today they were ordered to report there.
They will assist in training the new army which is to report at Camp Dodge September 5.
A Special train carrying 120 recruits for Uncle Sam's navy from the Omaha district
comprising Nebraska, South Dakota, and western Iowa, left Omaha Monday afternoon
for Newport, R. I.
The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917
Buried In Burning Ruins
Omaha, Neb.,
Feb. 26 – A fire broke out at six a.m.
Thursday in Robert Hawkes’ general store at Nebraska
City, and burned $177,500 worth of
property, including the Masonic and Odd Fellows three story black.
At nine a.m.
a wall of the Hawkes building fell, crushing a wall of the Masonic block ,
precipitating a number of firemen into the buring ruins. Nine men have been rescued, all badly hurt,
two of who can not recover.
The Decatur
Daily Review – Decatur, Illinois,
Saturday Morning, February 26, 1887