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Dodge House Lights Real Bright Spots
At right in the Art Nouveau, or guest bedroom, is this combination fixture of the 1800s. The center portion of the fixture is colored art glass with gas shades pointing upward, electric branches down.
Dodge House Lights Real Bright Spots
In Daughter's Bedroom...is another fine example of Victorian art. The hanging gas light with vaseline shades on the six arms plus opalescent glass balls worked into the main part of the light.
Dodge House Lights Real Bright Spots
An Original...with the Dodge House is the ornate lamp mounted on the newel post of the winding staircase. Penny Chatfield, Dodge House curator, looks at the lamp with etched shade and double tier majolica base.
Dodge House Lights Real Bright Spots
Nursery Fixture...is unusual in that a large bisque cherub tops the ornate brass fixture with metal leaves, the shades are made like petals in glass.
Pressed Glass On Display At Historic Dodge House
Helmet Design...butter dish reflects the warlike attire probably used in World War I.
Pressed Glass On Display At Historic Dodge House
The King Of Beasts...guards the butter container in clear glass and is representative of intricate designs used during the era of commemorative glassware.
Pressed Glass On Display At Historic Dodge House
Contrasting...clear and frosted glass are used for these covers for dishes. The left one is a compote with a frosted glass dog serving as a handle. The butter dish at the right sports a crouching lion.
Dodge House 2
Dodge House exterior, looking to the northeast from 3rd Street. Date penciled on back: 5-72
Dodge House 2
Dodge House, looking southeast from 3rd Street
Note on back says 8/73
Note on back says 8/73
Haunted House Disappears
The end of the 'haunted house' was the result of well-chosen undercuts by bulldozer operators for the J.C. White Werching [sic] Co., that tumbled the big old "squire House at 600 Third Street Wednesday morning. The "haunted house" got the name after…
Dodge House 2
Hanging light fixture in Dodge House; rectangular, stained-glass style fixture hanging from ornate plaster mount
Dodge House 2
Glassware, including covered dishes, plates, and a basket, on a shelf in a display case
Hrbek Sentenced; Fears Going To Ft. Madison
Standing At His Sentencing . . . is Omahan John L. Hrbek, convicted of the Sept. 16 shootings of Stanley L. Fisher and his mother, Kate Fisher. Hrbek, 26, received the mandatory life sentences for the killings.
Harlan Youth Is Charged With Murder Of Sister, 15
Colleen Connolly
Two Gunmen Used Screwdriver In Holdup That Launched Shooting Spree - Have Slain Two Men, Wounded Three Others
Charles Brown
Murder Suspects Visited Bars AT Missouri Valley - While Posse Searched City . . .
These Two Pistols . . . being examined by Police Capt. Bernard Land were taken from Charles Noel Brown and Charles Edwin Kelley.
Pale Gunmen Admit Omaha Murder And Four Other Shootings - Two Men In Council Bluffs Among Victims
Woman Companion . . . Josephine Patricia Nesbit sits in an interrogation room at the police station.
Grotto Of Rustic Beauty Dedicated At Mt. Loretto
Secluded in the shaded knoll at the rear of the Mount Loretto novitiate, this grotto is a sanctuary of rustic beauty. It was dedicated Wednesday night at an elaborate May Day celebration. The grotto is constructed of 'honeycombed" tufa stone and is…