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From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20070123
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The University of Kansas issued the following news release: The Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas will celebrate Kansas Day with an exhibit that features a book instrumental in Kansas becoming a free state and a reception in honor of those who donated the historic work.
The book, "Kanzas and Nebraska: the History, Geographical and Physical Characteristics, and Political Position of Those Territories," was written by Edward Everett Hale. It was published in Boston in 1854, the year Kansas became a territory.
The reception will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29, at the Spencer ...
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