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1917-10-01 Thomas Messenger to N.H. Messenger Page 4
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We had to lay off for about 18 hrs there. Finally got started and stopped again in St. Joseph Mo. Only for a little while tho. Then we moved on again. Woke up the next morning in Herrington Kansas. We rode all day and part of that night in that State. Didn't look much like Iowa either. The corn there wasn't much like that back home -- only about fence high. Lots of sugar cane growing there. Saw lots of fences built of rocks and many fields were covered with stones the size of a plate. Oh lots thicker than those up by Iowa. Prairie-dogs coyotes and jack-rabbits were abundant though. That reminds me I came to within a couple
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We had to lay off for about 18 hrs there. Finally got started and stopped again in St. Joseph Mo. Only for a little while tho. Then we moved on again. Woke up the next morning in Herrington Kansas. We rode all day and part of that night in that State. Didn't look much like Iowa either. The corn there wasn't much like that back home -- only about fence high. Lots of sugar cane growing there. Saw lots of fences built of rocks and many fields were covered with stones the size of a plate. Oh lots thicker than those up by Iowa. Prairie-dogs coyotes and jack-rabbits were abundant though. That reminds me I came to within a couple
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