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Remembering Emmetsburg in a Blizzard Time
A reader writes from Emmetsburg about a December radio program and recalls the town’s 1872 blizzard era, early railroads and hotels, civic clubs, Mother Coonan and her pioneering family, the New Ulm massacre fears, a Fourth of July with Gov. Carpenter, and life on one main street with blooming gardens, grasshoppers, and a move to Fort Dodge after the drought.
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Emmetsburg
Emmetsbure
Omaha
Des Moines
Northwest
Spencer
Algona
Palo Alto County
Martin Coonan
Old
Mother Coonan
Palo Alto
New Ulm
Minnesota
Gov. Carpenter
Erin
St. Patrick
New York
M. B
Mount Vernon
J. J
Pond’s Mill