I rarely see the Grand Island Business College mentioned anywhere. I don’t think it exists any more. My great uncle Herman Fromke was a student there. Nebraska native Edith Erickson was too. She graduated from high school in 1939 and then attended the business college. She passed away on Tuesday at the age of 90. ajh
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Airmail From Watertown to Sioux Falls & Omaha
Posted: February 4, 2011 in Collections, Nebraska, South Dakota, United StatesOn the weekend of January 16 and 17 in 1932, an airmail route between Omaha, Nebraska and Watertown, South Dakota by way of Sioux City and Sioux Falls began. It was known as Contract Air Mail Route 18. The inaugural flight southbound leaving Watertown was on January 17, and this piece was ‘backstamped’ in Sioux Falls. AJH
