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...years ago, Frix used his $5,000 savings account to make a down payment on 300 acres in Talbotton Ga. about 90 miles south of Atlanta, planted his mobile home on the ocher earth and moved in with his wife Judy, then 23 and one small daughter. Since then, he has become an exemplar of another type of Southerner: the small farmer who clings to the land even though he can barely scratch a living out of it Frix' s farm today has shrunk to about 100 acres ("We didn't have a choice; it was sell part...
Died. Nathan Straus, 82, great philanthropist and Jewish leader; of heart disease and high blood pressure; in Manhattan. He was born in Rhenish Bavaria in 1848, son of Lazarus Straus, who came to the U. S. in 1854, settled in Talbotton, Ga. Eldest brother was Isidor (later famed in the building up of Straus stores, victim with his wife of the Titanic disaster in 1912); youngest was Oscar Solomon (first Jew to hold a cabinet post, Secretary of Commerce & Labor, 1906-09, twice Minister, once Ambassador to Turkey; died in 1926). Ruined by the Civil War, the family came...
Jesse Isidor and Herbert Straus, potent brothers, part owners of R.H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store): "Last week we went back to the old homestead in Talbotton, Ga., where Grandfather Lazarus Straus, fresh from Bavaria, began to be a U.S. merchant in 1848. His shack is still standing, but the original store had burned down. In the public square, the citizens spread for us a barbecue. As we were munching sandwiches, a withered man came up, shook our hands, said: 'Isidor Straus [our father, one the three sons of Lazarus] was the best Latin student I ever...
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