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of my effort to get a start in the
business world. At one
time Papa was a wholesale
Grocer in Omaha Nebr. but
misfortune overtook him and
we lost everything we possessed
in the world, even our
dear homestead. We came
to St Paul to be near my
brother, he and I being
the only ones left out of
a family of ten. It falls