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...right smart unhandy to be po'," and live in a mountain cabin on $575 a year, with a woman and six children to keep-and maybe be neighborly and take in a half-dozen extra ones when their parents die. In the three-room cabin there is no heat but from the fireplace, no window, no plumbing. The hill woman is much in childbirth. After six or eight children she may die. The mountaineer takes a second woman, perhaps a third. What becomes of the many young ones, whose blood is of the purest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Outdoingest Fellers | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Charlotte, N. C., Joe Randle moved into a three-room house built of 10,000 bricks which it had taken him 18 months to collect from alleys, gutters, vacant lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Sincere | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...grave of the Father of Victory, will soon be installed as curator of a "Clémenceau Museum." Funds are rapidly being raised. Checks are mailed to the Clémenceau estates executor. M. Nicolas Pietri, at the Chamber of Deputies. The "museum" will be either the three-room, ground floor flat at No. 8 Rue Franklin, Paris, where the Tiger worked and died, or the tiny, one-story stone house with a partly thatched roof in the Vendee, where he worked and summered. Both flat and house were rented. Both will be bought, if the owners' prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beaux Gestes | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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