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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1908
Page
4
Local items report new sign for Georgia Wheatcroft gallery, trees arriving for spring planting, court and social events, road improvements, and new business moves. Mentions Assessor Jacobs, Union Pacific excursion, and church activities. references Franks McLain plastering, Nick Gassman windmill, and C. Middlekauff’s runabout.
A folk verse tale follows Joe Miller a haying farmer and a leap year springing a fateful encounter with Ann Smith the deacons daughter. Ann offers marriage for wealth but Joe hesitates and later laments the missed chance as Ann marries a blacksmith and raises a large family while Joe remains alone. The poem ends with the haunting refrain of fate and what might have been.
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