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OTHER CAIRO PICTURES
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- Henry Harrison Boring homestead – ‘Harris’ Boring came to Hall County in 1872 and settled on this farm in section 6 of Harrison township.
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- John Leonard with his family on his homestead in section 20 of Harrison township.
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- Gilbert Hurd (marked by an ‘x’) prairie chicken hunting near Cairo, Nebraska
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- Henry and Emma (Schultz) Kroeger and their daughter Elsie at their farm home southeast of Cairo on section 3 of Harrison township.
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- Thomas and Mary(Jump)Blythe on their homestead on section 32 of Mayfield township southeast of Cairo.
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- Cairo area coyote hunt around 1915
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- Vitalis Runels – Mr. Runels established the prairie town of Runelsburg in the 1870’s, hoping that a railroad would be built through his town. In 1886 the railroad established the town of Cairo three and a half miles west of the town of Runelsburg. Runels and his family moved to California where they helped develop the town of Nipomo.
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- George and Lucy(Bacon)Bussell – George Bussell homesteaded the land that today makes up the west half of Cairo. His brother Henry owned the land that now comprises the east half of the town. When the railroad came through in 1886, the brothers sold their land to the Lincoln Land Company so that the town of Cairo could be established. The Bussell brothers then moved to Chase county near Imperial.
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- George Elfers – Mr. Elfers established the Cairo Mercantile company, one of the first businesses in the new town of Cairo.
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- Cairo , Nebraska – main street looking north in 1894
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- Cairo residential street in January 1908
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- Cairo main street looking north around 1910
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- Cairo main street looking south around 1910
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- West side of Cairo main street looking south around 1910
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- East side of Cairo main street looking south around 1910
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- Farmer’s State Bank – Cairo, Nebraska
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- Cairo post office, formerly the Cairo State Bank building
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- Cairo, Nebraska post card around 1915
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- The post office at Cairo in 1917 – Milo Deeds, Henry Vierk, and George Deffenbaugh
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- Interior of the Cairo Bank around 1920 – Ed Cox, Elliot Harrison, and George Wingert
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- Cairo Mercantile – Cairo, Nebraska – one of the first businesses in the town
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- Cairo elevator with the railroad depot in the background
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- Henry Rathman harness shop in Cairo
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- Dove and Son grocery store – Cairo, Nebraska
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- Dunnie’s café in Cairo, Nebraska
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- This photo of Cairo was taken from the second floor of the new school while under construction in 1915.
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- Rasmussen and Roberts Pump Shop in Cairo where Baasch welding is now located.
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- Cairo in the 1940’s.
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- Cairo cream station around 1910
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- East side of Cairo main street around 1925
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- Karl Rasmussen’s blacksmith shop in Cairo
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- The McAllister store in Cairo
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- Modern Woodmen of America parade in Cairo around 1900
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- panorama view of Cairo main street around 1905
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- early picnic of Cairo area residents
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- Piersol’s drug store in Cairo
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- Interior of Piersol’s drug store
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- Western Bee Hall in 1914 – pictured are Lemuel and Ernest Grim. Photo by Louis Nielsen of Dannebrog
