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After a downturn in the market and changes in the livestock industry, the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha lost value through the 1960s. In 1973 the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was sold to the Canal Capital Corporation of New York. In 1999 the Union Stockyards were closed by the City of Omaha, and replaced with a business park. [9]
Omaha overtook Chicago as the nation's largest livestock market and meat packing industry center in 1955, a title which it held onto until 1971. [3] The 116-year-old institution closed in 1999. [ 4 ] The Livestock Exchange Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
This is a list of newspapers in the U.S. state of Nebraska. The list is divided between papers currently being produced and those produced in the past and ...
Creighton Bottling Works, also started making soda pop. In 1899 telephone service was installed by M.C. Theisen and Mr. Diehl. Northwestern Bell built long-distance lines from Norfolk. Creighton became a second class city in 1907, the same year a two-story brick school was built in the south part of town.
The Farm and Ranch Market Journal became Western Livestock Journal in the early 1930s. In 1952, Nelson purchased Livestock Magazine from the Biggs family in Denver.The two weeklies were combined in the ’70s to create one national edition of Western Livestock Journal and the monthly magazine was renamed Livestock Magazine, and split into three editorial editions.
There were several breweries established throughout the city during this period. In 1947 they were second only to Chicago in worldwide ratings. Omaha overtook Chicago as the U.S.'s largest livestock market and meat packing industry center in 1955, a title which it held until 1971. [10] The 116-year-old institution closed in 1999. [11]
The Neligh Journal was published in 1875, and in 1879, The Republican appeared. The Neligh Leader, established in 1885, was edited by three generations of the Best family.. Purchased by Loren Fry, who served as the Nebraska Press Association Board president in 1963, [3] it celebrated 100 years of continuous publicat
Creighton Township is one of thirty townships in Knox County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 202 at the 2020 census. [1] A 2023 estimate placed the township's population at 200. [1] The Village of Bazile Mills lies within the Township.