Word: arkfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Rock, Ark...
...cottage in Mineral Springs, Ark., 66-year-old Widow Annie Kelly was arrested, charged with shooting 68-year-old Alderman J. R. Page, of Nashville, Ark., on her porch after a quarrel. To Mineral Springs to "render any assistance needed" by Widow Kelly, once the wife of a country doctor named J. M. Rivers, Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, her son, sent his younger brother, J. S. Rivers...
Case Histories: Arnold Berry, Negro field hand and tenant farmer on the Teacher Plantation near Wilson. Ark.. gets 75? a day ("Not seventy-five cents every day in the year, but seventy-five cents a day when there is something for him to do"), earns less than $200 a year, sinks annually $30 or $40 deeper in debt to the plantation store, is of course forbidden to leave the place until the debt is paid off. He considers himself lucky, however, "that he is a tenant on the Teacher Plantation instead of being a tenant on the [adjoining] Harris...
Photographs: of a slant-walled sharecropper's shanty near Rose Bud, Ark., the rusted-away body of a Ford roadster in the foreground: "I remember when that automobile was a mighty pretty thing to ride around...
...country school at Harrisburg. Ark.: "Five months of school a year is all I'm in favor of, because I need my children at home to help work the farm...