Saturday, June 8, 2013

Goodbye Horses, Hello Tractor

The Price farm gets mechanized, August 1920.

F.B. Price news
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From the Hobart News of August 26, 1920.


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The "South of Deepriver" column from the same paper includes an interesting item about a schoolteacher off to teach in the wilds of South Dakota (or maybe the biggest city there, for all I know). While there were loads of Pecks in the area, I hadn't encountered the name "Myrl" before. I do wonder if it mightn't be Margaret Peck, a 21-year-old woman who had been working as a clerk in the Deep River store of William and Sadie Baker … and perhaps dying of boredom … but that's just my wild speculation.

"South of Deepriver" social column

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