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Title
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Dundy, Hitchcock, Redwillow, Furnas Counties, 1912
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-191
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Transcription
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11 amusement alternated deliciously with periods of depressing solicitude over what those cucumbers might do to me. But I laughed at his fears and ate my three fine cucumbers, after which we loafed and visited for an hour, when I arose to take my departure–first, however, devouring three more cucumers just to show that I was a good fellow. They were excellent, and if they disagreed with me I humbly beg my pardon, for I was never conscious of it. A short distance out of Haigler I was picked up by a Dr. Premer , and hustled over the remaining miles in fine style in his “Reo.” He is a graduate of the Omaha Medical College, practicing in Haigler , and we had much of interest to discuss. He directed me to a good hotel, and suggested that if I cared to accompany him he would take me out north in the morning, where he had calls to make. I took a walk southward that evening, being rather short of exercise, covering about six miles in Kansas . Conditions were about the same as those noted about Henkelman ; a sandy soil, well covered with vegetation, and few areas inclined to shift. Corn looks well, promising from 30 to 40 bushels per acre in many fields, the chances being about equal in fields of early planting badly thinned out by cold wet weather and cutworms, and replanted fields rapidly maturing but in danger of destruction if heavy frosts come early. There has been so much moisture in the Republican Valley this season that
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Rights
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