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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1937_011
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Alternative Title
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1937 Scottsbluff Narratives
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Date
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1937
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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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5 Car number; and expressed anxious concern. I assured him, groggily, that it was my own fault; that I had stepped into the lane without taking proper precautions. I said nothing about the unthinking dame who had kindly offered me a ride and had thus held up traffic; why drag her in? Well, in brief not so brief, that's that. (That rest, preceding and following of this "story" grouped under date January 6, 1937, was penciled by way of recreation, as I lay in the hospital bed soon after the event, by way of recreation. This one paragraph is written ten years later, to round out the narrative.) I had suffered no mental or physical shock. Thanks to having escaped the poisoning of anesthetics I began at once to mend. There was no reason on the day after my mishap, why I should not receive visitors; in the evening over a dozen came. I remember Editor Wisner of the Scottsbluff "Star-Herald", and his daughter Pauline, one of my most admired friends' and I remember the arrival of Mr. Terhune and his daughter Eva, both lovely friends, bearing floral cheer from their greenhouse which even had I been dead could not have appeared to me more beautiful, bedad; and which , being unreasonably
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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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