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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Oct. 10
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Oct. 10
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 2 page letter from Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, "Today has been a great mail day for me. Five letters from home, i.e."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-025a
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Transcription
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Hoping that you will all be as well when you receive this as as you were when you wrote last, I send a kiss and hug to each.
Yours, Lawrence Bruner
Oct. 10th 1897
Dear Marcia:–
Today has been a great mail day for me. Five letters from home, i.e. that many separate enevelopes containing 8 letters all told. and all of these those of Helen and baby Alice are the best — best because I didn't know that they could write so well. The latest too is only a month hold, having been mailed in Lincoln on Sept. 6th, and the first on Aug. 20th. I also received a letter from Kenelm and one from Mrs. McCrosky of Buenos Aires notifying me that she had sent me a lot of Outlooks, Sunday Journals and Nations. In the package were 10 Outlooks, 6 Journals, and as many Nations. Besides these there was a whole bunch of clippings from the week day issues of the Journal giving all kinds of Lincoln and Nebraska news — a regular treat to me for I do not get to see very much in the way of news from North America in the Argentine papers.
I was out on a trip of locust inspection during the past week and only returned last evening. While away I visited the city of Santa Fe for the first time. I also traveled over the line of railroad running between that city and San Francisco for the first time. On this trip a great many locusts were seen, as were also their eggs. I also saw where they had brought thousands of tons of the winged insects and buried them in ditches. At the one small town of Devota, a place not on any map that you may happen to have, 1200 tons were buried. At Pilar, another rather small place, 600 tons were collected by the farmers and paid for at the rate of 2 cents per kilogram. For eggs the Argentine government has been paying 15 cents per kilo. During the single day which I expect in that town and vicinity one ton of eggs was bought and buried. Although there still remain large numbers of locusts and many eggs have been deposited, they are rapidly dwindling day by day by these drains on their numbers. Seven thousand tons of locusts means at least two bilion and eight hundred millions of locusts, or enough of them to cover 90 square miles with ten locusts to each square yard. This is cretainly a very large swarm of insects. During the same time that there were being destroyed by the people an equal number perished from other causes, as for example the attacks of birds, small mammals, reptiles, insects and diseases. Still the plague is not exterminating
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Rights
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