Word: plattsmouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That evening in Plattsmouth, Neb., Sheriff Homer Sylvester received word to look out for the fugitives who might be heading toward Omaha. Sheriff Sylvester and his brother Cass grabbed their rifles and drove a few miles south of Plattsmouth to a filling station. Waiting there they soon saw a car racing along at 60 m. p. h. They let it pass and followed it. Soon the bandits slowed down, began to drive a weaving course pretending they were drunken drivers to tempt their pursuers alongside. The Sylvesters refused to be tempted, finally cornered their men at the dead...
Where the shallow, sandy River Platte debouches into the muddy Missouri is Plattsmouth, a neat little Nebraska town of 3,800 population, 21 mi. south of Omaha. Business used to be good in Plattsmouth. Cass County farmers were near enough to the city to diversify and the Burlington Railroad shops always took care of 400 or 500 men. Then for economy the Burlington began to consolidate the shops with its bigger ones in Lincoln. Some of the men followed the shops. Families doubled up and merchants cut down. Depression settled over Plattsmouth like a wintry fog. Six months ago when...
...supply crushed rock for the river and highway work two new quarries were opened, four old ones reopened. That took another 300. Gravel pits resumed operations with truckers getting contracts. A small packing plant and Refrigerator Express Co. leased part of the vacant Burlington shops. Payrolls were spent in Plattsmouth and merchants took on help...
Last week in Plattsmouth the re-employment office had closed, the Welfare Board disbanded, not a house, not an apartment was vacant, not a man was out of work...