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Excerpt from Old Times on Portland Prairie, Houston County, Minn: Including Family Records, 1851 1880 Two sizes of type have commonly been used in this work, the smaller size for things of a special character. All works of local history contain errors, and to expect a work of that kind to be faultless in this respect, would be expecting the impossible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.