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NEBRASKAland March 2018

NEBRASKAland Magazine is dedicated to outstanding photography and informative writing with an engaging mix of articles and photos highlighting Nebraska’s outdoor activities, parklands, wildlife, history and people.

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I e-mailed David about this... n 1899 the Omaha World- Herald floated the idea of setting aside a special day to honor corn bread, which it called "the Yellow King in food form." After all, corn bread had been a staple for many of the early pioneers, who ate it for breakfast, dinner and supper, and in many instances it probably staved off starvation. The idea fell flat with Editor A. H. Holmes of the Wilcox Herald, who had grown up in the corn bread era. He thought the idea might be all right for those who were unacquainted with corn bread, "but for us old timers who in bygone years had our intestines rifled out with the rasping roughness because we couldn't get anything else, it is entirely unnecessary. We know all about it ... we are acquainted with it in all its forms: baked, boiled, fried and fricasseed we have eaten it until for years afterwards the sight of a corn field would give us the diarrhea. Yes, it is all right to bring the smooth bore bowels of anterior easterlings in touch with the rough edges of the rasping corn dodger but us old fellows have been there, thank you." Holmes's views resonated with Cash Martin, editor of the Alma Journal: "Colonel Holmes ... kicks on having to put any more baked, boiled, fried, or fricasseed cracked corn into the interior of his corporeal system and we see where the colonel is right. We remember in the days of our childhood we had fried mush for breakfast, boiled mush for dinner, milk and mush for supper, and for dessert, it was milk de mush, mush on de milk, and on rare occasions, corn pone on the side. Oh, it was tough on the intestinal part of our anatomy and we think it would be detrimental to the best interests of Nebraskans to have a Corn Bread Day, except perhaps, for the few citizens of our fair state who fail to swallow their per capita of Early Risers." ■ Visit the Nebraska State Historical Society's website at history.nebraska.gov. I o calle le le le l d d d stapl pl pl ple e e ho at at at at ate e e and nd nd nd off ff ff ff ff olme me me mes s n the e e all rig ig ig ig ig ig ig ig ig ight ht ht ht ht ht ht h d, "bu bu bu but t fo fo fo fo fo fo fo for r r r ifled ou ou out t t b b r M A H h b f i c r t w b d Andy Howland, south West Union, Custer County, 1886. NSHS RG2608-1093 By James E. Potter, Nebraska State Historical Society These cowboys are better fed at their chuck wagon in 1898 than were many newly arrived homesteaders. NSHS RG2575-48 10 NEBRASKAland • MARCH 2018 A Brief History Country Editors Can't Stomach Corn Bread Day

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