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A Certificate of Moral Character: Rosewater and Rosicky on Immigration

Posted on August 10, 2012 by pgaster

Between 1856 and World War I, over fifty thousand Czechs came to Nebraska, attracted by a steady stream of advertisements in Czech-language newspapers and magazines published here. Edward Rosewater (1841-1906) and John Rosicky (1845-1910), early Omaha newspapermen, originally came from … Continue reading →