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Editorial

FUEL AND WATER; THE HOUSEWIFE’S NEEDS

By the late 1800s, new household conveniences were available to lighten some of a homemaker’s manual tasks. Examples are the sewing machine, first patented in the 1850s, and the carpet sweeper, which came into vogue during the 1880s. However, chores that involved the use of water and fuel-usually wood- were particularly demanding.

The Free World vs. China

With 1.4 billion consumers, China is a place with abundant potential. China also is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, a longtime belligerent which enslaves its own people, steals intellectual and tangible property, and flouts fundamental values like national sovereignty, free enterprise, democracy, and the rule of law around the world. While Congress has taken several small steps to restrain China this year, including passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which bans products made with slave labor in China’s Xinjiang region, the Biden Administration is failing to more directly confront China’s aggression.

SMALL TOWN WINTER SPORTS ARE ENTERTAINING

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With various COVID restrictions impacting sports events and other large gatherings from March 2020 through most of last year, Hubby and I have been to only a few indoor high school activities the past two years.

C. L. Brainard at the Nebraska State Normal School:

In September of 1872 C. L. Brainard, Sr., entered the state normal school at Peru, Nebraska, in what he called “my first real venture away from home.” Brainard was then only fifteen years of age but later wrote, “It was not so very hard to be away from home for I did not get along very well with my stepfather.”

Same Issues, New Year

I always look forward to reconnecting at Christmas with family and friends in one of America’s most beautiful places – the Nebraska panhandle. Although 2021 has ended, many of the same challenges Democrats failed to address last year as they pursued their extreme economic and social agendas await when the House reconvenes next week.

Ellen Louise Olnhausen, 76

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It is with a heavy heart that we announce the death of Ellen Louise Olnhausen, 76, of Cozad, Nebraska. Ellen began her eternal life on January 8, 2022.

Prioritizing Foreign Policy

America is the shining city on a hill, and we need strong, democratic partners around the world to help defend Western ideals of liberty and human rights. Weakness in the face of provocations from foreign enemies who openly oppose these ideals, such as China and Russia, threatens the freedom, and in some cases the very survival, of friends and allies we have fought alongside to liberate. Clarity and consistency in securing our prerogatives and standing with those who aspire to freedom, democracy, and self-determination around the world is vital.

Almanacs and Weather Forecasts:

Almanacs were standard literature in most Nebraska homes in the late 1800’s and well into the 1900’s. These calendarlike handbooks were compendiums of odd bits of knowledge, notations of anniversaries, statistics of all kinds, planting dates, advice for housewives, logarithm charts, jokes, weather forecasts and even fiction and poetry.

Flashbacks

January 1956

A New Year’s Eclipse:

New Year’s Day in Omaha in 1889 was crisp but sunny. “The streets were thronged from 9 o’clock in the morning,” said the Omaha Daily Bee on January 2nd. “The saloons were liberally patronized, as have also the contents of the capacious punch bowls, with which enterprising dealers love, on these festive occasions, to grace their boards. There was but little attention paid to devotional exercises and still less to the formal observance of the muchabused custom of calling. . . . Business, of course, was suspended and in homes where comfort and happiness rule there have been family dinners and family reunions . . .