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Purcupile, Benjamin H., Private, Omaha, Nebr.
Remillard, Louis O., Private, Omaha, Nebr. Reus, John, Private, Chicago, Ills. Rhodes, Frank V., Private, Omaha, Nebr. Roberts, Harry W., Private, Omaha, Nebr. Robinson, Richard, Private, Omaha, Nebr. Scott, Wallace M., Private, Stromsburg, Nebr. Shirey, Ralph W., Private, Daykin, Nebr. Sickinger, Charles E., Private, Chicago, Ills. Spiegel, Emil R., Private, Chicago, Ills. Starkey, Roy D., Private, Wheeling, W. Va. Swanbom, Alarac R., Private, Wahoo, Nebr.
Way, Chester F., Private, College View, Nebr.
Wegner, Andrew J., Private, Chicago, Ills. Werner, Walter A., Adams, Wis. Wohlner, Paul, Private, Omaha, Nebr.
Worley, Ivan H., Private, Lincoln, Nebr.
Worrall, Lowell D., Private, Wahoo, Nebr.
Zeiger, Alfred G., Private, Omaha, Nebr.
BASE HOSPITAL NO. 49, NURSING PERSONNEL.
Ida L. Gerding, Chief Nurse, 2403 Patee Street, St. Joseph, Missouri. Albrecht, Lillian, Morgan, Minnesota.
Albrecht, Florence M., 406 South 11th Street, Beatrice, Nebraska. Amgwert, Anna, Murdock, Nebraska.
Anderson, Sadie L., Pequot, Minnesota.
Andrews, Katherine B., 996 Albermarle Street, St. Paul, Minnesota. Anson, Bessie M., 2122 Locust Street, Omaha, Nebraska. Arthur, Beatrice E., Norfolk, Nebraska. Baker, Clare, Dwight, Illinois. Banwell, Edith, "Oakdale Farm", Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Batie, Lelia E., Ord, Nebraska. Beachly, V. Belle, R. R. No. 4, Box 228, Lincoln, Nebraska. Bixby, Alice M., College View, Nebraska. Blome, Emma A., 627 E. 2nd Street, Fremont, Nebraska. Blomberg, Mabel C., 1616 12 Ave., Moline, Illinois.
Brandt, Thyra L., Omaha, Nebraska. Brannian, Edith M., Randolph, Iowa. Braun, Josephine C., Humphrey, Nebraska. Braun, Minnie K., Humphrey, Nebraska. Brecks, Ida A., Arapahoe, Nebraska.
Brenenstall, Harriet M., Creighton, Nebraska.
Brown, Mildred I., Orient, Iowa.
Budler, Marie T., Hampton, Nebraska.
Chamberlain, Josephine, No. 7 Troy Apts., Omaha, Nebraska.
Chalmers, Mary, 131 Rosebank Street, Dundee, Scotland (enlisted at Winston Salem, North Carolina). Chapin, Mildred, Columbus, Nebraska. Champney, Cecile R., Fremont, Nebraska.
Cherry, Juliet E., Diller, Nebraska.
Conway, Margaret F., 3339 North 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Conley, Anna M., Broken Bow, Nebraska.
Crouse, Clara, Thompson, Nebraska.
Crowell, Eva L., Walthill, Nebraska. Culp, Pearl R., 3125 E Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Dickinson, Edna O., 144 South 29th St., Lincoln, Nebraska.
Dill, Alberta E., Blue Springs, Nebraska.
Doege, Martha C., Titonka, Iowa.
Duguay, Emma M., Washburn, Wisconsin.
Eckstrom, Mabel, Newman Grove, Nebraska.
Edgecumbe, Florence E., Salix, Iowa. Ellison, Irena M., Route No. 1, Geneva, Nebraska.
Elliott, May, Elwood, Nebraska.
Fleetwood, Hilda C., Wakefield, Nebraska. Glammeier, Carolyn A., 815 West Summit Ave., Shenandoah, Iowa. Hammerland, Myrtle H., Box 28, West Point, Nebraska.
Hawk, Nell E., Ida Grove, Iowa. Jamison, Sarah E., Butte, Nebraska.
Johnson, Emily A., Box 431, Oakland, Nebraska.
Johnson, Ellen Marie, Broken Bow, Nebraska.
Johnson, Huldah D., Mead, Nebraska ..
Johnson, Lillian R., 1689 E. 9th Street, Portland, Oregon.
Kalal, Elizabeth, Burke, South Dakota. Kavon, E. Georgia, Wahoo, Nebraska.
Kolle, Carrie May, Florence, Nebraska.
Krausnick, Martha M., Lincoln, Nebraska.
Larson, Pearl W., Maple City, Michigan.
Lindstedt, Hildegard, Havelock, Nebraska.
Lippincott, Maybelle, Niwot, Colo. MacLaughlan, Mildred, 654 School Street, Lowell, Massachusetts. MacRae, Gertrude B., Bangor, Maine. McKinnon, Nellie H., Ashtabula, Ohio.
McKay, Mary Coball, Ontario, Canada.
Mang, Lillian M., 424 First Street, Albany, New York.
Marshall, Mary Jane, Benkleman, Nebraska.
Martin, Selma M., Oakland, Nebraska.
Meiklejohn, Pearle, 2229 7th Ave., Council Bluffs, Iowa. Morisette, Mayo G., 628 Grant Street, Wausau, Wisconsin.
Murray, Ethel, Lexington, Nebraska. Nasstrom, Anna C., Fremont, Nebraska.
Nicholson, Martha, Sebright, Ontario, Canada.
Oliver, Margaret E., Elroy, Wisconsin.
Olson, Lilly, Rock Springs, Wyoming.
O'Malley, Mollie, Omaha, Nebraska.
Polansky, Bess, Clarkson, Nebraska.
Pugh, Elizabeth, Scofield, Utah.
Quist, Esther, Gothenburg, Nebraska.
Rogers, Eva M., Ord, Nebraska. Roggensees, Anna L., Holbrook, Nebraska.
Rudat, Emma H., North Platte, Nebraska.
Sandman, Elizabeth H., 1403 H Street, Fairbury, Nebraska.
Schurman, Alma L., Scribner, Nebraska.
Sconce, Ethel M., Hoyt, Kansas.
Sheibley, Anna I., 915 West 2nd Street, Grand Island, Nebraska. Seeck, Elfrieda L., Brunswick, Nebraska.
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NEBRASKA BASE HOSPITAL 49 STAFF AT ALLEREYE Left to Right: Colonel Mitchell, Major Hull, Major Bridges, Major Stokes, A. E. Sheldon
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TO THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE
ANCIENT PAWNEE MEDAL
A Remarkable Engraved Medal From a Pawnee Grave. --- Letter From Father M. A. Shine Presents Theory of Its Origin.
This unique and interesting medal was found in the extreme western part of Nance county, in 1883, by two people who unearthed it from an Indian grave, and presented it to the present owner, Mrs. G. W. Ellsworth, of 645 North 30th St., Lincoln, Nebr.
The grave was not far from the banks of Spring Creek, a small stream which enters the Loup river about fifteen miles northwest of Fullerton, Nebr. In the same grave they found glass beads and other trinkets which showed contact with whites.
This is all that is really known about this medal. It is the first silver Indian medal to come into the rooms of the Nebraska State Historical Society; and probably the most interesting Indian relic ever found in Nebraska.
A careful study of the accompanying full sized cuts suggests that the medal was probably engraved to commemorate a brave act. The two figures escaping toward the two horses in the grove nearby suggests that the hero was an Indian rescuing a white woman from captivity. The ravine illustrates the recital of his exploits around the camp fire. The legend tells that it commemorates the deeds of "the bravest of the brave." If we could know the historic facts in all the details it would doubtless make an interesting story.
The best authority on engraving says the work was doubtless done by hand with a tool used to engrave dies or patterns for stamp- ing. That the engraver had skill of marked ability is evidenced by the specimen. The engraving was done without shading in the lines, and pictures of this class were common from 1600 to 1800. The technique of the drawing places it before 1800 .- E. E. B.
The following letter from Rev. M. A. Shine, of Plattsmouth, to Curator Blackman, of the Historical Society Museum, is full of in- terest:
Plattsmouth, Nebr., January 21, 1919.
My Dear Mr. Blackman:
Here are a few notes in regard to that silver medal which you so kindly allowed me to examine, on the occasion of the annual meet- ing of the State Historical Society, a week ago.
As you remember, we most emphatically disagreed in regard to the particular band of Pawnee to which the Pawnee, Pi-ta-le-sha-ru or MAN CHIEF, belonged.
As I see it now, we were both right in our contentions, for we were talking about two men with the same name, but with entirely different characteristics, and living at different periods of time in the history of the Pawnee tribe.
I spoke of Pi-ta-le-sha-ru, or MAN CHIEF, or CHIEF AMONG MEN, (Hdbk. of Am. Inds. II, 236), a Pawnee brave or warrior, the son of La-che-le-sa-ru, or KNIFE CHIEF (Hdbk. II-118), the Head Chief of the SKIDI or WOLF PAWNEES, at this time (1817-1821), as the man who received this medal in Washington, D. C., in 1821, on account of his brave act in 1817 in rescuing a Comanche girl from the 'sacrifice to the Morning Star. (Drake, Inds. 635.) Pawnee Stories, Grinnell, 363-434. For details, etc., of Skidi Sacrifice, see Pawnee Stories, 363-368.)
You had in mind the Chaui or Grand Pawnee Chief, Pi-ta-le-sha-ru, who was born about 1823 (Blackman in H. of Neb. I-43; Kans. Cols. X,) survived the smallpox epidemic of 1837-38, and was made head chief of the confederated Pawnee tribes in 1852, and who died about 1874.
In regard to my man: Pi-ta-le-sha-ru, the SKIDI warrior, was born about 1796 or 1797, among the Skidi tribe, in what is now Ne- braska. He was about 20 years old when he ignored and disregarded the sacred and religious traditions of the Skidi Pawnee tribe, by res- cuing and leading to safety this Comanche maiden, who was destined as a victim and burnt offering to the Great or Morning Star, one of the tutelary gods of the Skidi tribe.
However, it is well to bear in mind, that during this very same
period of time (1817-1821) there was another man named Pi-ta-le-sha-ru, or MAN CHIEF, who was one of the head chiefs of the Kit-ke-hah-ki, (i. e., Small or Little Village), or Republican Pawnee, who had re- ceived in June, 1818, a chief's medal from Gov. William Clark, in St. Louis, Mo. I am inclined to believe that many writers have confused the names of these two men.
At any rate, Pi-ta-le-sha-ru, the Skidi brave or warrior, accom- panied his father, LA-CHE-LE-SHA-RU, or KNIFE CHIEF, the head chief of the Skidi Pawnee, with a number of other Indian chiefs to Washington, D. C., in 1821. While there the fame of his remarkable bravery in such a glorious act having preceded him, the young ladies of a Mrs. White's seminary presented him with a special silver medal, in honor and commemoration of his brave act. (Drake, Inds. 635.)
While I have no direct and incontestible proofs for its identifi- cation, yet I am fairly convinced that this silver medal is the identi- cal medal presented by these young ladies, and that the grave in which it was found was that of Pitalesharu, the Skidi Warrior, THE CHIEF OF MEN, or THE MAN AMONG MEN, or as the medal itself translates his name, THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE.
Yours sincerely, Rev. Michael A. Shine. P. S .- Grinnell describes the altar or framework engraved on the medal. See Pawnee Stories, p. 364, last four lines.
Spelling of Nebraska Indian names varies greatly in different books and in different periods. Spelling used by Father Shine we have let stand. It may be worth while to state the spelling given in the Handbook of American Indians (Vol. 2, p. 236), Petalesharo, with the following variations in the article: Petarescharu, Pe-tah-lay-sha Petanesharo. The spelling of the name of Knife Chief is given in the same volume, page 118, Latalesha with the variations of Settu- lushaa and Letereeshar. The standard of spelling adopted by the Ne- braska State Historical Society is that used by the Bureau of Ameri- ican Ethnology.
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Schreiber, Orma A., Alma, Wisconsin.
Shepard, S. Julia, Alexandria, Minnesota.
Smart, Nellie Hunt, World Herald Bldg., Omaha, Nebraska.
Smith, Jessie, 1406 North Broad Street, Fremont, Nebraska. Smith, Zella A., Roca, Nebraska.
Sullivan, Minnie M., Grace, Idaho. Svitak, Emma L., Chapman, Nebraska.
Thode, Martina C., 777 Scott Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Vance, Evangelyne F., Exeter, Nebraska.
Wagner, Maybelle, Virgil, Kansas.
Weller, Hedwig, 1916 South 32nd Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska. Westerdahl, Viva E., Fulda, Minnesota.
Wilkinson, Grace E., Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska.
Windmeyer, Connie, Naper, Nebraska.
Wishart, Irene L., 92 Avenue Road, Toronto, Canada.
Wooster, Dorothy, Silver Creek, Nebraska.
Wright, Ethel M., Belt, Montana.
CIVILIANS.
Jess, Irene H., 2722 Howard Street, Omaha, Nebraska. Naughtin, Patricia L., 5017 Davenport Street, Omaha, Nebraska, O'Sullivan, Eva F., 4800 Lindale Ave., Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rusland, Muriel, Omaha, Nebraska.
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THE O'NEILL LAND DISTRICT
This bit of history is taken from the North Nebraska Eagle of January 9:
The O'Neill land district in Nebraska was abolished on December 31, the files of the office being transferred from O'Neill to the United States land office at Lincoln.
The district over which this office had jurisdiction was first estab- lished in Dakota City in March, 1857, and continued here until 4 o'clock p. m. August 31, 1875, when it was moved to Niobrara. It again closed at that place July 1, 1888, and was moved to O'Neill, where it opened July 16, according to "Warner's History of Dakota County."
During its location in Dakota City the following officers were in charge, their names appearing in the rotation they served:
Receivers-J. C. Turk, Geo. B. Graff, Alex. McCready, Charles D. Martin, James Stott.
Registers-J. N. H. Patrick, Alfred H. Jackson, Floris Van Reuth, Wm. H. James, G. W. Wilkinson, B. F. Chambers.
The first land district in Nebraska was created by an act of Con- gress of July 22, 1854; the office was located at Omaha in 1856, and the first sales were made in the first half of 1857. The district com- prised all the public lands in the territory the Indian title to which had been extinguished.
The act of March 3, 1857, provided:
That all that portion of the Territory of Nebraska at present in- cluded in the Omaha district, which lies south of the line which di- vides townships six and seven north, extended from the Missouri river westward, shall constitute an additional district, to be called the "Nemaha Land District"; all said Omaha district which is situated south of the south shore or right bank of the Platte river, and north of the said township line, between townships six and seven north, shall constitute an additional land district, to be called the "South Platte River Land District"; and all that portion of said Omaha dis- trict which lies north of the south boundary of the "Omaha Reserve," extended westward, being identical with the line which divides town- ships twenty-three and twenty-four north, shall constitute an additional land district, to be called the "Dahkota Land District"; the location of the offices for which shall be designated by the President of the United States, and shall by him, from time to time, be changed as the public interests may seem to require.
Accordingly the president designated the location of the land Offices for the respective districts as follows: For the Nemaha dis- trict, Brownville; for the South Platte district, Nebraska City; for the Dakota district, Dakota City. Sales of lands in these districts were begun in the first half of the year 1858.
Some of the officers of the Dakota land office named above were quite prominent in the territory or the state. John C. Turk was well known as Governor Izard's private secretary in 1857, the last year of the governor's tenure; Dr. George B. Graff was a leader in the dem- ocratic party; Alexander McCready was best known as a champion of the greenback party and cause; "Father" Martin was an eccentric pioneer publisher and editor of newspapers in Dakota county. In the later seventies and early eighties he was a familiar figure in Sioux City, laden with the pay "in kind" for advertising, in a capacious gunny sack slung over his shoulder. His greatest fame, however, grew out of his serial story, "The Conflict-Love or Money," which ran on through a large later part of his long life. But Patrick was the bright particular star of the group. His mind was keen, alert and resourceful. His name became familiar throughout the country through the part he took in the undertaking to have Cronin recog- nized as an elector from Oregon in the violent Tilden-Hayes contro- versy of 1876-77. He was a member, from Omaha, of the second legis- lature, which removed the capital to Lincoln, and was the strategist in the senate of the anti-removalists. When all dilatory tactics of the minority had failed, and after the bill had been ordered to a third reading and engrossed, he moved the substitution of Lincoln as the name of the proposed capital instead of Capitol City, the inexpressibly ugly name of the bill in its original form. Shortly before his death Mr. Patrick informed me that he proposed the new name to worry his fellow Copperheads, so-called, in the senate, and especially those from Nebraska City, which was the backbone of the removal scheme. He had some hope that their prejudice against Lincoln might upset the whole movement. On. the contrary, the amendment was promptly adopted.
William H. James afterward became secretary of state, and after Governor Butler's removal on impeachment he was, ex officio, acting governor.
Dr. George W. Wilkinson was a prominent local physician and an assistant surgeon of the First Regiment Nebraska Veteran Volunteer Cavalry during most of the Civil War.
Benjamin F. Chambers was a member of the House of Represen- tatives of the sixth legislature, and was second sergeant of Company I, Second Regiment Nebraska Cavalry Volunteers.
AN EARLY SETTLER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I, Sarah E. Wilhite, daughter of Jesse and Eliza Crook, was born on Cumberland mountain, near Crossville, Cumberland county, Tenn ..
March 2, 1849. My uncle, John Crook, was then living there, keeping a. tavern and stage station to accommodate travelers crossing the mountain. We lived on the mountain for three years, then moved down into Put- nam county, where the town of Cooksville is now situated-on the land my father owned and where we lived until we started for Ne- braska. My grandmother Crook's maiden name was Mary Lee, who was a descendant of General Robert E. Lee's family. My father's fam- ily comprised his wife, two sons, John and William, and myself. In September, 1853, with six other families, we started to Nebraska, my mother driving one of the six wagons drawn by oxen. In October we stopped near the town of Fillmore, Andrew county, Missouri, where two brothers of my father, Allen and Isaac, were living. We remained there until April, 1855, because the territory was not then open for settlement. In August, 1854, my father came to Nebraska. and took a claim a mile and a half north of the present Falls City. On April 17, 1855, we crossed the river into Nebraska at the old town of St. Stephens, and the next day we arrived at our claim.
In 1868 my brother John died. My brother William, who is two years younger than I, lives here and is in the hardware business, and has a grown-up family of three sons and two daughters. When we located here we were the fourth white family in this part of the. country; our other neighbors were the Sac and Fox Indians, who lived at their reservation on the Nemaha river two miles south of Falls City. The Indians were very fond of visiting us in our cabins and watching us at our housework. My first marriage was to August Schoenheit, on September 7, 1864. He came to Nebraska in 1860. After living in Brownville and Omaha for about four years he settled at Falls City, where he remained until his death in February, 1887. He held some important offices, such as county prosecuting attorney in 1864-65, state senator in 1882, and mayor of Falls City for three terms. We lived together twenty-two years and had nine children, four of whom died in infancy. Three sons grew to manhood: Gus died at the age of 33 years, leaving a son now 23 years of age and who is in the U. S. military band at Boston, as a flutist; Julian, a lawyer, died in Kansas City, March, 1909, leaving one daughter, Erma, who resides there; William, also a lawyer, died at the age of 22 years; my daughter Lillie died in 1886, at the age of 13 years; Sallie, my only child living (and baby), now 37 years old, married Abner S. Mc- Kee, civil engineer, rancher and also in the sheep business quite ex- tensively. They have a little boy six and a half years old, named David James. They live in Paonia, Colorado.
I heard "Jim". Lane deliver a Fourth of July oration at Falls City, in 1857; John Brown, of Harpers Ferry fame, and his band were in camp on our claim near Falls City the same year.
I remained a widow twelve years, and on October 12, 1898, I was married to J. R. Wilhite of Falls City, a lawyer, Civil War veteran, and for twelve years county judge of Richardson county. We are now living in the block where I moved in 1867.
SARAH CROOK WILHITE.
Mr. Schoenheit was a senator in the tenth legislature, which con- vened in the eighteenth session-the eighth regular session-on Jan- uary 2, 1883.
Prior to the enactment of the homestead law, in 1862, public lands were procured by settlers under the preemption act of 1841. The act provided that when a person belonging to one of the classes specified
_. shall hereafter make a settlement in person on the public lands to which the Indian title had been at the time of such settlement extin- guished, and which has been, or shall have been, surveyed prior thereto, and who shall inhabit and improve the same, and who has or shall erect a dwelling thereon, shall be, and is hereby, authorized to enter with the register of the land office for the district in which such land may lie, by legal subdivisions, any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and sixty, or a quarter section of land, to include the resi- dence of such claimant, upon paying to the United States the mini- mum price of such land. . . .
The price was $1.25 an acre.
But the act of Congress approved July 22, 1854, permitted settle- ment upon unsurveyed land, and Mrs. Wilhite's father promptly took advantage of the concession-in the following month. On March 15, 1854, the Otoe and Missouri Indians ceded all their lands in Nebraska which included the subsequent Richardson county to the United States, and the treaty of cession was confirmed by the president on June 21. They had ceded the contiguous part to the west on September 21, 1833. The Omaha Indians likewise ceded their lands on March 16, 1854; so that the act of July 22 opened to settlement all of eastern Nebraska as far as about seventy-five miles from the Missouri River, except that in the extreme southeast the free territory extended no farther west than the Great Nemaha River, and a narrow strip along the river belonged to the half-breed Indians .- A. W.
COSTLY HIGH LIVING IN THE SEVENTIES
The North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune of January 14 tells the following story of a desperate device to procure a then hunter's neces- sity of life on the Nebraska plains. The "Irish lord" was Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven, born in Adare, Ireland, in 1841. He was noted as traveler, war correspondent, states- man-or politician-and author of books about his varied experiences.
A plentiful supply of the best liquors almost characterized the hunting excursions in Nebraska of important personages during the period in question, and it strains credulity to believe that so apt a
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provider as this noble earl should have been caught in such desti- tution. But fiction is often truer than bare fact, and whichever class this story belongs to it serves to illustrate the contrast beween habits and necessities of less than fifty years ago and those of the present piping times of prohibition. The hunt-for elks-was in the fall of 1872.
A group of North Platte's old timers were recalling early day ex- periences Saturday evening, and naturally the late Colonel W. F. Cody figured in many of the incidents. One of the men said he remembered when a member of a hunting party chaperoned by Col. Cody bought a ranch in order to get five gallons of whiskey. The hunting party, one of whom was a sporty young Irish lord, left Ft. McPherson for a buffalo hunt over south in the Republican valley. When they left the fort part of the supplies was a keg of whiskey, but in rough driv- ing over the hills and through the canyons the cork in the keg became unloosened and when the members of the party went to the keg to refill their private flasks they found that the liquor had all leaked out. There was great consternation for the party was then sixty miles from Ft. McPherson, the. base of their supplies. The Irish lord said whisky must be had and appealed to Colonel Cody. The Colonel thought a moment, then smiled. He remembered that a few weeks before while out scouting he had run across a shack inhabited by a man who had given him a drink; perhaps he had some left. The shack was about a dozen miles distant and he asked the Irish lord to accompany him. They started and in due time arrived at their destination. "Any booze left?" asked the Colonel of the shack inhabitant. "Well, about five gallons," he replied. "How much do you want, the ranchi goes with the liquor. Price of the ranch is five hundred dollars." The Colonel said he could not pay $500 for five gallons of whisky and started in to induce the man to lower his price. It was then that the Irish lord sidled up to Colonel Cody and whispered to take him up at the price for fear he might withdraw the offer or raise the price. The deal was closed then and there, the Irish lord producing a roll and skinning off $500. The keg was tied on the Colonel's horse and telling the man that they would call the next day for the deed to the land, they rode off to camp. It is needless to say the deed to the land was not called for the next day.
WONDERFUL GROWTH OF THE TELEPHONE IN NEBRASKA
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