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Native Texan farmer on relief. Goodliet, Hardeman County, Texas. "Tractored out" in late 1937. Now living in town, and on the verge of relief. Wife and two children. "Well, I know I've got to make a move but I don't know where to. I can stay off relief until the first of the year. After that I don't know. I've eat up two cows and a pair of horses this past year. Neither drink nor gamble, so I must have eat'n 'em up. I've got left two horses and two cows and some farm tools. Owe a grocery bill. If had gradutated land tax on big farms, that would put the little man back again. One man had six renters last year. Kept one. Of the five, one went to Oklahoma, one got a farm south of town and three got no place. They're on WPA (Works Progress Administration). Another man put fifteen families off this year. Another had twenty-eight renters and now has two. In the Progressive Farmer it said that relief had spoiled the renters so they had to get tractors. But them men that's doing the talking for the community is the big landowners. They got money to go to Washington. That's what keeps us from writing. A letter I would write would sound silly up there."

Native Texan farmer on relief. Goodliet, Hardeman County, Texas. "Trac...

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Denver, Colorado. Loading fabricated steel ship parts, processed in Denver, for shipment to Mare Island Navy Yard, where the parts will be assembled into fighting escort vessels. The Denver plant was on the verge of shutting down last year when it suddenly decided to convince the U.S. Navy that parts could be built there even though located on the other side of Rockies

Denver, Colorado. Loading fabricated steel ship parts, processed in De...

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Fruit farmer's wife playing piano. Placer County, California. Because they have not changed the variety of plums and pears which they raise to meet changed market conditions they have gone further and further into debt to the Federal Land Bank and are now on verge of losing their four hundred acre farm on which they have raised fruit on for twenty-five years

Fruit farmer's wife playing piano. Placer County, California. Because ...

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The shame of Massachusetts. On January 22, 1878, Mr. James G. Blaine, then a Senator in Congress, styled Massachusetts, in debate, "A State, bristling all over with unpatriotic records going clear up to the verge of treason and in the opinion of

The shame of Massachusetts. On January 22, 1878, Mr. James G. Blaine, ...

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 76, Folder 30c.

The shame of Massachusetts. On January 22, 1878, Mr. James G. Blaine, then a Senator in Congress, styled Massachusetts, in debate, "A State, bristling all over with unpatriotic records going clear up to the verge of treason and in the opinion of

The shame of Massachusetts. On January 22, 1878, Mr. James G. Blaine, ...

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 76, Folder 30c.