Word: deloa
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Some Mexican laborers disbanded their camp at Porterville, Calif, last week There was no work on the farms, no food, no place to go. Cesario Delgado and ten others decided they would make for Old Mexico by way of Bakersfield. Ysobel Nunez and Alexandro Deloa said they were going to take their families to Fresno, maybe find winter work there. Bernardo Ries said he would go along. Cesario Delgado hiked over to a doctor's barn and stole a sack of barley, which he distributed among the parting families. With dull adios they scattered...
...travelers, meanwhile, had reached Fresno's outskirts where a Mexican told Ysobel Nunez that he could get him a job. The Nunezes were very happy, and Senora Nicholosa Nunez made a big mess of barley tortillas to celebrate. The Deloas and Bernardo Ries joined in, and some strangers appeared to dance and wish them luck. The four Nunez children ate until they nearly burst. The two Deloa children, being guests, were more mannerly. That was lucky for them. For in a few days everyone who had eaten at Nicholosa Nunez's banquet had the gripes, the Nunezes worst...
...four Nunez children died. All the rest went to the county hospital at Fresno where Senoras Nunez and Deloa died...
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