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...families visited by the Committee's agents, 407 were "grower" families and 274 contract labor families. The total number of persons in those families between the ages of five and sixteen working in the beet fields was 1,358, or 67 per cent of the workers. More than 50 per cent of these children worked on a contract labor basis...
Those who have sent in their names in the last two days include a bookseller, a cranberry grower, a librarian, a machinist, and a retired business man. There are numerous stenographers, clerks, lawyers, social workers, and nurses. The list includes a woman telegrapher and a real estate broker; a writer and an electrical tester; a salesman and a reporter; a hotel housekeeper and at least one "wife and mother." Teachers, of course, are in the majority. The students include graduates of Harvard and numerous other colleges...
Warren, F. E., stock grower...
...Grower Flint '88 will speak at the Union at 7.15 tonight on "The Philippines." Mr. Flint was in Cuba during the Cuban revolution and wrote a book on his experiences while there, entitled, "With Gomez in Cuba." When the trouble with the United States broke out Mr. Flint received a lieutenancy in the volunteer army. Later he served two years in the Philippines. Mr. Flint in his talk this evening will make a resume of the causes of the war against the Philippines and will discuss the methods of the campaign as compared with British campaigns in similar countries...
Among the remaining fifty were numbered an orange grower, a farmer, a geologist, a capitalist, a chemist, a planter, a cadet in the revenue service, an assistant paymaster in the U. S. Navy; a landscape architect, and a few theological students, engineers of various kinds, and bank clerks...