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Technology in Arkansas

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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers</span>, in the weeks that followed, California scientists dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: 'California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'

<span style="font-weight: bold">One week later</span>, The 'Newport Daily Independent', a local newspaper in Arkansas, reported the following:

After digging as deep as 30 feet in cotton fields near Malvern in Hot Spring County, Bubba Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Arkansas had already gone wireless.
 
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