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To: escapefromboston

“ Those young whipper snappers don’t know what it’s like to work 10 hours a day in a snow storm for a nickel !”

An old guy I knew said that back in the day he worked at a sawmill from sunup to sundown for $0.50/day, and if you weren’t there by sunup you didn’t make a full day.


34 posted on 04/13/2025 6:41:10 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bk1000

Yeah but back then you could buy a house , a car and a wife for 3 dollars and still have money left over for a pack of smokes


36 posted on 04/13/2025 7:08:25 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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