Dodge Elementary School, Grand Island, Nebraska

Stuhr Museum in 1888

I read a copy of an 1888 book when I went to Stuhr's country school. The school did not buy the books in 1888, the parents had to. When the kids went to school sometimes they got to drive horses to school only if they took care of them at school. They had a ball that came from a cow. It was made inside the cow and when the cow runs or walks the stomach goes up and down making the ball. It is made out of manure and cow hair. In penmanship we had to use ink pens.

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