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Wear Out Your Welcome – Landstreet, PA (1913)

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Miss Nellie Lehman lived in Landstreet, a very small community that is no longer organized. Landstreet was located in the mountainous area of Somerset County

Courtly Love for Ella – Sellersburg, Indiana (1911)

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Miss Ella White lived in Sellersburg, a town in southeast Indiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellersburg,_Indiana In February of 1911, Ella received a lovely Valentine postcard from Rossie (I

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