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In 1960 the grain elevator beside the railway was the tallest building for thirty miles, the only buyer a farmer could reach, and the reason a great many…
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In 1950 there were still tens of thousands of one-room schools operating across rural America, each with one teacher, one stove, one bucket of water and every child…
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In 1955 the single-handed country doctor was the whole of medicine for a great many townships. He saw patients in a room at the front of his own…