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Series: This Week In Odessa History | Story 3

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The Odessa Record

July 27, 1919

News updates: A poultry salesman has been making the area, selling his product at $5.00 a gallon. The spray has proved unreliable.

A railroad man that has been working at Nemo says he knows just the place to banish Kaiser Bill Hohensollen. Nemo is uninhabited, hotter than hades and miles to water in any direction. How times have changed. A couple of years ago the Odessa men looked at Nemo as an oasis in a desert, and when stricken with an unconquerable thirst, invariably went to Nemo to have is assuaged and came away relieved. Sometimes they brough...

 

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