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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1936_033
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Alternative Title
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1936 Scottsbluff Narratives
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Date
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1936
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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6 violet - me - or by transmission, I - get my stride! Hardened beyond belief - breathing every breath from the farthest-south ultimate cell of my rather capacious lungs, instead of the mere northern fringe utilized by the desk-dub - muscles hardened to bear punishment -vision re-trained to sense the lessons of the horizon shimmering in above-100 heat - and appetite keeping pace - gee gosh, how I pack away comestibles, on these rejuvenating trips ! (The preceding paragraphs are plumb out of order! - they tell how I felt a week later! I had to Build Up, to feel that way; and it took time, and miles. But it may as well be recorded here as elsewhere.) I was sorry to pass Antioch in darkness - for I should have liked some photographs. Antiock is in the center of the potash lakes - the most vast store of alkaline chemicals on the face of the earth. - Germany has always supplied the potash of the world - for fertilizers, and for a score of basic chemical uses - some of our essential industries simply curl up and bust , when the crude supply of these alkaline products fails. - Came the World War; no Gernman potash available. Both business sense and patriotism left great numbers of plants were set up; thousands of people bought stock in the various enterprises. And the Nebraska plants, probably three-fold over all others , supplied the chemicals needed - many of them required for high explosives to fight the foe . . . The war ended; once more, all Germans were our sweet and beloved brothers; so again, we bought our potash from them - the price being markedly lower because of the peonage wage which will support a Boche! Our own potash industry was allowed to go down in ruin - another example of the "ingratitude of republics." Antioch, I last viewed in 1918, when the industry was at its height - a thriving town, almost a city -
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Rights
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To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
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