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Kansas Poetry

"Nothing in the Paper" by Albert Stroud
Verdigris Valley Verse
(Coffeyville, Kansas: The Journal Press. 1917)

One of many poems in the Poetry collection on Blue Skyways.

34th state: January 29, 1861 Area: 82,264 square miles Population: (1900) 1,470,495 · (1990) 2,447,574 · (2000) 2,688,418 · (2010) 2,853,118 State Capital: Topeka Governor: Sam Brownback
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