Dora Etta Wade Diaries for Macintosh This hyperlinked eBook documents life in Shel
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It was an era of general stores, hucksters and the thrill of mail order catalogs. Entertainment consisted of the Prairie Farmer and a little Crosley radio that ran on short-lived "B" batteries ordered from Sears. A fresh battery meant an evening listening to the Barn Dance on WLS, the radio station of the "World's Largest Store" - which, of course, was Sears.Dora diaries the Great Depression and the Dustbowl. She frequently mentions her concern over keeping their telephone party line, Number 84, working when customers had to maintain their own poles and lines. Access depended on all members of the party line paying their "telephone dues."Her father and brother were participating in government work relief programs transforming hedge-lined dirt paths into modern highways. Her brother drove his new Paige automobile on those evolving roads as he deliberated over moving to Detroit to find work in a factory. The family debates whether to lease their farmland to an oil company, as they contemplate how that very land helped them survive the Great Depression without relying on government cash relief. Dora's father ponders whether it is wise to register with the social security system as it is signed into law. Dora meticulously notes friends, relatives and neighbors who drop by or send letters and cards. The diary includes dozens of surnames. Read firsthand about Balch, Banning, Bartman, Christenson, Coons, Davidson, Dudley, Elston, Fox, Gotman/Gottman, Grant, Groves, Houser, Hudson, Jones, Kull, Largent, Lawrence, Milligan, Mummel, Patterson, Rawdin, Risser, Robinson, Roley, Rollins, Severe, Shanholtzer, Shaw, Smith, Thomas, Volkman, Wade, Welton, Wheat, and Wiley families in Shelby County during the early 1930s.

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