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A physical legacy of the organization are "Treestones" or "tree-stump tombstones" marking the grave of a
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After internal dissension within the MWA, Root was ejected from the organization that he had founded. When moving to Omaha, Root decided to start again with a new group he called the Modern
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called the
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changed the AM station's rare three-letter call sign to KOMJ. With a subsequent program format change in 2005, the station became
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