From The Archives
Panel of judges chooses Morningside student as 'Sioux City Sue'
125 years ago HOTEL BURNED: The whistles of two switch engines first, and directly afterward the ringing of the fire bells, woke up most citizens at 3:30 o'clock yesterday morning. They saw a bright light in the early part of town and most of the them went back to bed again. It was the St. Paul hotel, on Wall street, near Fifth, that was burning. The building was worth $1,600 and was rented for $32.50 per month.
125 years ago HOTEL BURNED: The whistles of two switch engines first, and directly afterward the ringing of the fire bells, woke up most citizens at 3:30 o'clock yesterday morning. They saw a bright light in the early part of town and most of the them went back to bed again. It was the St. Paul hotel, on Wall street, near Fifth, that was burning. The building was worth $1,600 and was rented for $32.50 per month.
Sioux City police experiment with controversial new 'stun gun'
125 years ago TALL MAN: A stranger, apparently a German professional man newly arrived in this country, was noticed on the streets yesterday from his extreme length. Bets were offered that he was eight feet tall, but no one had the temerity to ask the dignified foreigner his height. Certainly he was the tallest man seen in the city since Cole's giant was here.
125 years ago TALL MAN: A stranger, apparently a German professional man newly arrived in this country, was noticed on the streets yesterday from his extreme length. Bets were offered that he was eight feet tall, but no one had the temerity to ask the dignified foreigner his height. Certainly he was the tallest man seen in the city since Cole's giant was here.
Records of first schoolhouse in Sioux City found in trash
125 years ago NEARLY DROWNED: Little Paul Adams, the 7-year-old son of J.H. Adams, foreman of Sanborn and Follett's lumber yard, was playing at the mouth of Perry creek yesterday afternoon and fell in. The water there was quite deep and the crowd of men that collected appeared afraid to venture in to save the little fellow. They were trying to pull him to shore with sticks and only his head was visible as he sank the last time, when Mr. Ingledu came. He jumped in just in time to save the child. The heroism of Ingledu in plunging in while others who came earlier were standing back, is worthy of much praise, but then he is a fireman and firemen are often doing such things without the general public hearing anything about it.
125 years ago NEARLY DROWNED: Little Paul Adams, the 7-year-old son of J.H. Adams, foreman of Sanborn and Follett's lumber yard, was playing at the mouth of Perry creek yesterday afternoon and fell in. The water there was quite deep and the crowd of men that collected appeared afraid to venture in to save the little fellow. They were trying to pull him to shore with sticks and only his head was visible as he sank the last time, when Mr. Ingledu came. He jumped in just in time to save the child. The heroism of Ingledu in plunging in while others who came earlier were standing back, is worthy of much praise, but then he is a fireman and firemen are often doing such things without the general public hearing anything about it.
Winnebago Tribe breaks ground for bingo parlor along Missouri River
125 years ago JUVENILE CIRCUS: The hill school children of 10 years and under gave a circus entertainment afternoon and evening in a tent raised back of the Douglas street school building. It was a stupendous aggregation of success from the time the procession rallied around the Wells' donkey and went forth in high parade through the residence part of the Third Ward until the close of the last bloodcurdling act in the evening. The show included clowns in pie-bald calico trousers, bareback riders, trained dogs, trick ponies and donkeys, tumblers and contortionists. The afternoon receipts reached the gratifying sum of $4.50 and must have much exceeded that in the evening.
125 years ago JUVENILE CIRCUS: The hill school children of 10 years and under gave a circus entertainment afternoon and evening in a tent raised back of the Douglas street school building. It was a stupendous aggregation of success from the time the procession rallied around the Wells' donkey and went forth in high parade through the residence part of the Third Ward until the close of the last bloodcurdling act in the evening. The show included clowns in pie-bald calico trousers, bareback riders, trained dogs, trick ponies and donkeys, tumblers and contortionists. The afternoon receipts reached the gratifying sum of $4.50 and must have much exceeded that in the evening.
Northeast Nebraskans want bridge across Missouri at Sioux City
125 years ago BRIDGE IT: The people of northeast Nebraska have spoken: Sioux City is having a boom this spring and no city is building up more or enjoying greater opportunity. But great as is her prosperity, it would be increased tenfold if the river was bridged at that point. Sioux City is dependent to a great extent on the business she derives from north Nebraska, which would be greatly increased if the river were bridged. Bridge the river and where her people now receive $10 from Nebraska, they will then receive hundreds.
125 years ago BRIDGE IT: The people of northeast Nebraska have spoken: Sioux City is having a boom this spring and no city is building up more or enjoying greater opportunity. But great as is her prosperity, it would be increased tenfold if the river was bridged at that point. Sioux City is dependent to a great extent on the business she derives from north Nebraska, which would be greatly increased if the river were bridged. Bridge the river and where her people now receive $10 from Nebraska, they will then receive hundreds.
Younkers will build new store in downtown Sioux City
125 years ago GARBAGE PROBLEM: A sanitary citizen suggests that if the city would get a few vacant lots for a dumping ground the offal put there would be valuable after it had rotted for a year, and could be sold at good figures to parties who are making lawns or gardens. As it is now, the refuse cleaned from the alleys must be hauled away out of the city and dumped in some ravine or gully where it is utterly wasted. As a testimonial of his faith in the dump heap he offers to take $10 stock in a company formed to provide a dumping ground.
125 years ago GARBAGE PROBLEM: A sanitary citizen suggests that if the city would get a few vacant lots for a dumping ground the offal put there would be valuable after it had rotted for a year, and could be sold at good figures to parties who are making lawns or gardens. As it is now, the refuse cleaned from the alleys must be hauled away out of the city and dumped in some ravine or gully where it is utterly wasted. As a testimonial of his faith in the dump heap he offers to take $10 stock in a company formed to provide a dumping ground.
Board rules against making Floyd Monument area a national monument
125 years ago NEW JOURNAL FORMAT: Area papers have commented on The Journal's "new dress:" Fremont Herald: The Sioux City Journal comes out in an elegant new spring dress, fresh as a daisy...Rock Rapids Review: Thursday The Sioux City Journal made its appearance in a new dress and printed on a better quality of paper. The general appearance for neatness is improved, but is so changed that it will take some time to make the old friend seem natural.
125 years ago NEW JOURNAL FORMAT: Area papers have commented on The Journal's "new dress:" Fremont Herald: The Sioux City Journal comes out in an elegant new spring dress, fresh as a daisy...Rock Rapids Review: Thursday The Sioux City Journal made its appearance in a new dress and printed on a better quality of paper. The general appearance for neatness is improved, but is so changed that it will take some time to make the old friend seem natural.
Vice President Nixon, Speaker Rayburn attend Sioux City steak dinner
125 years ago NURSERY UP AND RUNNING: The grounds of the Sioux City Nursery are located on the northeastern limits of the city, where the company has invested $10,000 in real estate. The present season holds a large selection, consisting of about 1,000,000 grafts of various kinds, besides ornamental and small fruit in proportion. They will have market apples, currants, gooseberries and other small fruits, besides plums, cherries and a fair supply of ornamental trees and shrubs and a large supply of forest trees.
125 years ago NURSERY UP AND RUNNING: The grounds of the Sioux City Nursery are located on the northeastern limits of the city, where the company has invested $10,000 in real estate. The present season holds a large selection, consisting of about 1,000,000 grafts of various kinds, besides ornamental and small fruit in proportion. They will have market apples, currants, gooseberries and other small fruits, besides plums, cherries and a fair supply of ornamental trees and shrubs and a large supply of forest trees.
USD students, faculty celebrate 100th birthday of state's oldest maple tree
125 years ago SHORT ITEMS: There is a town ordinance against parading stallions in the streets of Emmetsburg...Two Plymouth county men the other day captured a she-wolf with eight cubs, for which they received a bounty of $27.
125 years ago SHORT ITEMS: There is a town ordinance against parading stallions in the streets of Emmetsburg...Two Plymouth county men the other day captured a she-wolf with eight cubs, for which they received a bounty of $27.
One-way traffic is on the way for Nebraska, Pierce streets
125 years ago NOT LINING UP TO DIE: Undertakers, grave-diggers, and others in the funeral line complain of lack of business. Even for a healthy town, which Sioux City has always been, there have been remarkably few deaths for a number of weeks.
125 years ago NOT LINING UP TO DIE: Undertakers, grave-diggers, and others in the funeral line complain of lack of business. Even for a healthy town, which Sioux City has always been, there have been remarkably few deaths for a number of weeks.
Cargill plans to build $15 million soybean oil refinery in Sioux City
125 years ago PIPE DREAM: So far forty-three cars of pipe for the water mains have been received. There remains about as many more to come. McRichie and Nichols, the contractors for the pipelaying, write that they will be here as soon as the material is on the ground. Not enough of one kind of pipe, with the special castings needed, as yet to allow the work to begin.
125 years ago PIPE DREAM: So far forty-three cars of pipe for the water mains have been received. There remains about as many more to come. McRichie and Nichols, the contractors for the pipelaying, write that they will be here as soon as the material is on the ground. Not enough of one kind of pipe, with the special castings needed, as yet to allow the work to begin.
Search for rural Paullina boy and his dog has a happy ending
125 years ago POST OFFICE BUILDING WANTED: The government asks proposals for furnishing a postoffice building at Sioux City. The inspector was in Sioux City yesterday to see about a post office building and said that the service needed a first floor, with good light and ventilation.
125 years ago POST OFFICE BUILDING WANTED: The government asks proposals for furnishing a postoffice building at Sioux City. The inspector was in Sioux City yesterday to see about a post office building and said that the service needed a first floor, with good light and ventilation.
Panel of judges chooses Morningside student as 'Sioux City Sue'
125 years ago HOTEL BURNED: The whistles of two switch engines first, and directly afterward the ringing of the fire bells, woke up most citizens at 3:30 o'clock yesterday morning. They saw a bright light in the early part of town and most of the them went back to bed again. It was the St. Paul hotel, on Wall street, near Fifth, that was burning. The building was worth $1,600 and was rented for $32.50 per month.
125 years ago HOTEL BURNED: The whistles of two switch engines first, and directly afterward the ringing of the fire bells, woke up most citizens at 3:30 o'clock yesterday morning. They saw a bright light in the early part of town and most of the them went back to bed again. It was the St. Paul hotel, on Wall street, near Fifth, that was burning. The building was worth $1,600 and was rented for $32.50 per month.
Sioux City police experiment with controversial new 'stun gun'
125 years ago TALL MAN: A stranger, apparently a German professional man newly arrived in this country, was noticed on the streets yesterday from his extreme length. Bets were offered that he was eight feet tall, but no one had the temerity to ask the dignified foreigner his height. Certainly he was the tallest man seen in the city since Cole's giant was here.
125 years ago TALL MAN: A stranger, apparently a German professional man newly arrived in this country, was noticed on the streets yesterday from his extreme length. Bets were offered that he was eight feet tall, but no one had the temerity to ask the dignified foreigner his height. Certainly he was the tallest man seen in the city since Cole's giant was here.
Records of first schoolhouse in Sioux City found in trash
125 years ago NEARLY DROWNED: Little Paul Adams, the 7-year-old son of J.H. Adams, foreman of Sanborn and Follett's lumber yard, was playing at the mouth of Perry creek yesterday afternoon and fell in. The water there was quite deep and the crowd of men that collected appeared afraid to venture in to save the little fellow. They were trying to pull him to shore with sticks and only his head was visible as he sank the last time, when Mr. Ingledu came. He jumped in just in time to save the child. The heroism of Ingledu in plunging in while others who came earlier were standing back, is worthy of much praise, but then he is a fireman and firemen are often doing such things without the general public hearing anything about it.
125 years ago NEARLY DROWNED: Little Paul Adams, the 7-year-old son of J.H. Adams, foreman of Sanborn and Follett's lumber yard, was playing at the mouth of Perry creek yesterday afternoon and fell in. The water there was quite deep and the crowd of men that collected appeared afraid to venture in to save the little fellow. They were trying to pull him to shore with sticks and only his head was visible as he sank the last time, when Mr. Ingledu came. He jumped in just in time to save the child. The heroism of Ingledu in plunging in while others who came earlier were standing back, is worthy of much praise, but then he is a fireman and firemen are often doing such things without the general public hearing anything about it.
