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Title
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Sioux County, June 17-July 2, 1911
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Date
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June 17-July 2, 1911
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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Regional Narrative
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Identifier
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321301-1911
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Rights
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(6) Frank H. Shoemaker, special student in zoology, University of Nebreska -
collecting beetles, spiders, butterflies, and grasses; photographer- _—
in~-general for the Zoological Department and for himself.
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Tom Powell, Sioux County, cook and charioteer, with Bill and Sorrel
and a large hard wagon. -—Tem ¢4--k thi pbrt-yvepe.
Dr. Woleott and I left Lincoln on the evening of June 16th, the rest
of the party having preceded us one day. We had a vreposterous amount of
baggage, little of it checkable, and had to make three trips apiece to the
train to load or unload our possessions. , through oversight, a suit-case
was checked which contained 8 quart of 95% aleohol and a quart of formal-
dehyde, and before the train left Lincoln Dr. Woleott went to the baggage
ear to get it. But the baggare-sinashers had had one smash, which was
enough, and he returned with a sorry-looking suit-ease, soaked and be-
dragesled and redolent of divers liquids ~- a pint of whisky charged with
quinine heving joined with the other fluids in the wreck. These five
pints of stuff had soeked everything in the suit-case, including all of
our medical supplies - bandages, cold cream, adhesive tape, etc. And
how the formaldehyde did advertise its presence! It is a most assertive
liquid, and many were the tears shed by ourselves and most of the people
in the car. We expected to be thrown out, but I think few of the passen-
gers knew where the trouble came from. When the train got in motion the
situetion was somewhat improved by the draft, but whenever there was a
stop the people wept. After forty miles or so had been traversed, a man
came across the aisle and accosted the Doctor. "Beg perdon, but - isn't
there some formalin leaking in your bagrage? I'm an undertaker." - This
last doubtless offered in explanation of his ability to recognize and
classify the odor. Dr. Wolcott assured him that there had been some
leakage, and hoped it didn't bother the gentleman? Oh, no, no; no an-
noyance; only he thought he would call attention to it. The Doctor set
forth enough of our woe to make it clear that the leakage was beyond con-
trol, and the sympathetic undertaker retired with tears in his eyes.
There was a heavy rain late in the evening, and I was interested to
see moths flying in considerable numbers when we stopped in a railroad
yard for a few minutes. A locomotive stood a hundred yards away, and
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