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Franklin McMillan Diary, 1929-1930

Frank McMillan 1929-1930 Diary 14.pdf

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Room $2.00 Total expenses $9.35 drove 157 miles today.


Nov 20th Wednesday. Breakfast at Petersburg $2.00 Gas 23¢ a gal here got 8 gals $184 got first oil here 2 quarts 60¢ chilly this morning. lots of woods here small scrub oaks mostly saw our first tobacco it was drying in the field in small cocks like hay. only it sat on a little platform and a stick out the top for Ventilation. took a picture of a field of it. saw our first cotton this a.m. The soil here near the North Carolina border is red. like brick dust. stopped at South Hill about 11am got some eats for dinner 55¢ Crossed into North Carolina about 1130am soil mostly white sand now instead of red. the woods are mostly scrub pine here. and cotton & tobacco fields. in patches here & there in between. Lots of cotton now. Crowds of darkies picking it. and lots of trucks & wagons drawing it in to the towns, ate our dinner in a pine wood near a darkie Cabin had company two dogs and a cat. made 90 miles before dinner

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