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W -t i . f w' " " Douglas County court house today is a building of which all . .
y Jl:? " Nebraska may well be proud. It stands as a beautiful monument to the
" ' derelopment of Omaha as a business, community.
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All phera) ri donated
to the BMrcbants of Omaha ey Louis R.
Bostwkk, ennnMrcud photofraphor.
As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska bill President
Pierce in 1854 appointed Francis Burt to be gov
ernor of the new territory called Nebraska. He journeyed
up the Missouri with his official family, intent on estab
lishing the capitol at Florence. Landing at Bellevue, he
and his staff were hospitably entertained, and the ambi
tious residents of the little town sought to persuade him
to make theirs the new capitol city. He persisted, however,
in his first intension, and continued the voyage. By the
time the governor reached Omaha, however, he was too
ill to continue, and stopped here. His illness was fatal,
and the duties of governor fell on Thomas B. Cuming, sec
retary of state, who established the first capitol of Ne
braska at Omaha.
While the political capitol of the state did not re
main in Omaha, our city has become firmly estab
lished as the commercial capitol of the great territory of
which it is the Gate City.
From 1854 the commercial growth of Omaha was
very rapid. The civil war did much for Omaha.
It brought governmental recognition of the desirability of
closer communication between the east and west coast.
Congress encouraged the building of the Atlantic and Pa
cific Telegraph, the development of which brought to
Omaha the Creightons, W. A. Paxton, Edward Rosewater
and others who were interested in pioneer telegraphy.
These men were later to become the industrial leaders of
the city.
The stream of commerce continued to deepen and
widen, notably in the field of retail selling,
wherein were men of vast foresight and unlimited faith in
Omaha. Enterprising were the merchants of Omaha in
the early days, and their names are still remembered.
When the first stores were opened, the red men as well
as the white were drawn to the Gate City to have their
wants supplied. Red Cloud, Red Dog, Spotted Tail, .
American Horse, Young-Man-Afraid and many others
were known to pioneer merchants of Omaha.
But now! Omaha's first crude commercial struc
tures have given way to mammoth temples of
trade, where the finest of the world's goods are on sale.
The stores and stocks have kept closely in touch with the
demands of a growing community and rare indeed would
be the product not to be obtained in Omaha today.
The Omaha Bee feels that the merchants who
have placed this city in the van of middle western
commercial communities will in the future as in the past
bend every effort to the continued growth of Omaha, not
only commercially, but as a city in which we may all be
proud to make our homes and raise our children.
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The Omaha Bee, established in 1871 by Edward
Rosewater, has always been a widely used me
dium by which the merchants of Omaha have informed
Omaha's Great Shopping District of their wares. The
news of merchandise, scanty in those days when only bare
necessities were to be had, has grown day by day and
month by month until today the discriminating shopper
finds in The Bee the news of goods brought to Omaha
from all over the world and at prices that encourage
economy.
This is the fourth of a series of advertisements on Omaha, "The Retail Market," dedicated
to the merchant of Omaha by The Omaha Morning Bee. THE EVENING BEE
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