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Ice Box
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Lighting
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(22)
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(9)
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(10)
LOSS OF FARM
(2)
Lumbering
(1)
Mail
(2)
Manpower
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Manure
(5)
Marketing
(16)
Marriage
(17)
Meat
(2)
Mechanization
(5)
Military Service
(13)
Milk
(1)
Milking
(11)
Mills
(1)
Miner
(1)
Mother
(4)
Movies
(10)
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Music
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Neighbors
(22)
No-Till
(4)
Non-Farm Work
(40)
Non-Farm-Related Work
(1)
NRA
(2)
Nurse
(3)
Oats
(6)
ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE
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Orchards
(7)
Organic Farming
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ORGANIZATIONS
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(3)
Over-Production
(4)
OVERPRODUCTION
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Parents
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Parochial School
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Pears
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Picnics
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Planting
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Plowing
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Plumbing
(10)
Politics
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Poultry
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Preaching
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Productivity
(12)
Pure Milk Association
(2)
Radio
(1)
Railroads
(2)
Rationing
(20)
Reading
(2)
RECOLLECTIONS
(22)
REFLECTIONS
(18)
Refrigeration
(1)
Refrigerator
(1)
RELIGION
(5)
Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)
(1)
RETIREMENT
(8)
Rheumatic Fever
(1)
Rice
(1)
River
(1)
Roads
(4)
Roller Skating
(1)
School Activities
(10)
SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION
(8)
School Facilities
(2)
Scotland
(1)
Scythes
(1)
Seed Corn
(1)
Set-Aside
(1)
Settlement
(1)
Sewing
(1)
Shoes
(3)
Shopping
(3)
Shucking Corn
(1)
Siblings
(5)
Sister
(3)
Skunk
(1)
Smokehouse
(1)
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
(14)
Soil
(2)
Soil Bank
(1)
Soil Conservation Service
(1)
Son
(2)
Sons
(1)
Soybeans
(3)
Specialty Crops
(1)
Sports
(3)
Spreader
(1)
State Fair
(1)
Steam Power
(4)
Straw
(1)
Stress
(1)
Sugar
(6)
Sugar Maple
(1)
Sulfur
(1)
Sweet Corn
(2)
Swimming
(2)
Switchboard
(1)
Taxes
(7)
Teachers
(6)
Telephone
(2)
Tenant Farming
(17)
The Grange
(1)
THRESHING CREW
(3)
Threshing Dinners
(1)
Threshing Machine
(6)
Threshing Ring
(4)
TOWNS
(13)
Tractors
(7)
Transportation
(14)
Travel
(12)
Trucking
(2)
TV
(5)
Unions
(6)
VACATION
(1)
Values
(32)
Victory Gardens
(1)
Vinegar
(1)
Vineyard
(1)
Visiting
(10)
Walking
(1)
War Bonds
(2)
Washer
(3)
Water
(1)
Weather
(5)
Wedding
(1)
Wheat
(4)
Wife
(8)
Wine
(1)
Women's Work
(29)
Wood Stove
(2)
WORK
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WPA
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WWII
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