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Coffee Fetches a Yankee Paymaster in Wallace
In Wallace during the Kansas Pacific era Major Ed Reddington, famed Civil War veteran and paymaster, arrived to a grand town welcome. The Irish landlady pressed coffee, asking for tea only to learn the paymaster preferred tea, provoking surprise and a lively exchange among the boardinghouse crowd.
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