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Leonard Bernstein Scrapbook: Vol. IV. Feb. 24, 1945-Sept. 16, 1945

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$500 reward. The subscribers, Selectmen of Reading, in behalf of said town, hereby offer a reward of five hundred dollars to any person who shall give information that may lead to the detection and conviction of the person or persons who

To the Hon. William Medill, House of representatives, Washington: Sir: I have to-day received a copy of the Globe of the 7th of April, and am astonished at the impudent and false statements made by you in your speech on the appropriation bill, i

Prospectus of The Universal traveller, A weekly publication, of 16 octavo pages ... It will be issued every Saturday, by the undersigned, in Washington City, D. C. at five dollars per annum ... Washington, D. C. October, 1824.

Prospectus of The Universal traveller, A weekly publication, of 16 octavo pages ... It will be issued every Saturday, by the undersigned, in Washington City, D. C. at five dollars per annum ... Washington, D. C. October, 1824.

An appeal to the world; or, A vindication of the town of Boston, from many false and malicious aspersions : contain'd in vertain letters and memorials, written by Governor Bernard, General Gage, Commodore Hood, the Commissioners of the AMerican Board of Customs, and others, and by them respectively transmitted to the British Ministry

$200 in premiums. The Publishers of the Philadelphia Saturday Chronicle, anxious to contribute their mite towards encouraging native talent, and desirous of showing their gratitude for the liberal patronage bestowed upon their publication

Auszug von general Waschington's circular schreiben an die gouverneure eines jeden staates,

To the public A false and garbled statement having been given by some of the presses, and letter-writers from this city, as well as by W. Montgomery, relative to the difficulty between himself and myself, and that matter having undergone investi

The Olivia letters; being some history of Washington city for forty years as told by the letters of a newspaper correspondent,

Fifty dollars will be given for any information as to the scoundrel who published to the world a notice, purporting to have been written by the managers of the Washington circus, in which I was made the subject of ridicule and circulated by some

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On verso: 47.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.

Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 209, Folder 27.

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Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton and pulled bolls, made eighty cents a day with two people picking bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August, left McCarl with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, Calipatria. Picked peas through October. Left for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving FSA food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma we was sinkin.' You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say it's a better life than that was."

Negro tenant family who barely lives on the earnings of fifty dollars a year. They pay a standing rent. There are five children working; ages from seven to fourteen. The older children cultivating, the younger children hoeing and chopping. Eutaw, Alabama

This workman at the Umatilla ordnance depot built this house for his family, spending fifty dollars for materials. He rents building space from homeowner in Hermiston, Oregon. He pays for use of sanitary facilities in house of homeowner; outside privies are provided

The silo on the Daxtater barn has just been finished and cost three hundred fifty dollars. Little Falls, New York

This workman at the Umatilla ordnance depot built this house for his family, spending fifty dollars for materials. He rents building space from homeowner in Hermiston, Oregon. He pays for use of sanitary facilities in house of homeowner; outside privies are provided

Home of family living in Sumac Park, shacktown community outside of Yakima, Washington. Father is ill and unable to work. They are paying for land (three hundred and fifty dollars) at rate of seven dollars a month

Home of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars per month. Husband also works about ten days a month outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two, three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

Calipatria, Imperial Valley, In Farm Security Administration (FSA) emergency migratory labor camp. Daughter of ex-tenant farmers on thirds and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton, pulled bolls made eighty cents a day with two people pulling bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August. Left McCall with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, California. Picked peas through October. Left Hollister for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving Farm Security Administration food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma, we are sinking. You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say that it's a better life than it was."

Houses at 3677 Jackdaw Street. Rent has been increased from twenty-eight dollars per month to fifty dollars for house in front and twelve to thirty-five dollars for house in rear. San Diego, California

Home of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California. They bought twenty acres of raw unimproved land with a first payment of fifty dollars which was money saved out of relief budget (August 1936). They received a FSA (Farm Security Administration) loan of seven hundred dollars for stock and equipment. Now they have a one-room shack, seven cows, three sows, and homemade pumping plant, along with ten acres of improved permanent pasture. Cream check approximately thirty dollars a month. Husband also works about ten days a month on odd jobs outside the farm. Husband is twenty-six years old, wife twenty-two. Three small children. Been in California five years. "Piece by piece this place gets put together. One more piece of pipe and our water tank will be finished."

$50 reward! stolen! from the subscriber living in Milford, Decatur County, Ia. a dark iron gray mare, three years old ... The thief is a boy about 20 years old ... [Offering a reward of fifty dollars for the mare and the boy or twenty dol

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: "Whitman Broadsides," 1855-1889; Check for fifty dollars from Whitman to Oldach & Co., 1889, Oct. 3

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