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and corn which brought in a small income. Cotton sold for $25.00 a bale in 1929, while peanuts sold for four cents a pound. Corn sold for 50 to 60 cents a bushel. Conditions continued to grow worse. For weeks no cars traveled the country roads because there was no money to buy gasoline and tires. Hunters were not able to buy shotgun shells which sold for sixty cents a box so they fell back to trapping animals for food. Streams were seined for turtles and fish for the housewife’s table. Along with the wild meat, salads were gathered from the woods. Numerous varieties included wild "poke sallet", narrow and broad leaf dock, creasy, wild turnip salad, lettuce, rabbit ear and dandelions. In the fall hickory nuts, walnuts and hazelnuts were gathered for the long winter nights. Blackberry patches were raided for jellies and jam for the table. Conditions became so bad that some families had only stock peas to cook in clear water without any seasoning. Others lived on parched corn for days. Corn was carried to mill and ground into meal for cornbread. Milk was an important product in those days. Everyone in the country and many in town kept a cow to furnish milk for the family. Some of the town cows were tied to front porch posts while they feasted on the green lawn. Wood and coal were the chief heating products. Farmers cut their own wood and some sold wood to their town neighbors for $1.00 a rick (8 feet long and 4 feet high). Coal sold for $3.60 per ton and laborers received 50 cents a day to haul and unload it. The day was at least 12 hours long. Wages for farm labor was 25 cents a day. Farmers paid 35 cents a hundred to get their cotton picked. They usually swapped labor, helping each other on the farm. Clerk hire was $1.50 per day in 1933 and 1934. Meals in restaurants were in keeping with other prices. Breakfast, which consisted of sausage, two eggs, toast, jelly, butter and coffee was 15 cents while dinners were 25 cents including drink. The one redeeming feature during the depression days in Decatur County was there was less crime. Neighbors loved one another and had time to visit. They divided their meager fare with one another. Information on the malaria epidemic that is mentioned in J. O.’s email: This information was taken from: http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/ Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite. People with malaria often experience fever, chills, and flu-like illness. Left untreated, they may develop severe complications and die. Each year 350-500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, and over one million people die, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill that created the TVA on May 18, 1933. The law gave the federal government a centralized body to control the Tennessee river's potential for hydroelectric power and improve the land and waterways for development of the region. An organized and effective malaria control program stemmed from this new authority in the Tennessee River valley. Malaria affected 30 percent of the population in the region when the TVA was incorporated in 1933. The Public Health Service played a vital role in the research and control operations and by 1947, the disease was essentially eliminated. Mosquito breeding sites were reduced by controlling water levels and insecticide applications.
This is a Bemis Company duplex like the Wallace home in 1924 Town of Bemis has unique History http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=B032 Developed by the Jackson Fibre Company (a division of the Bemis Brothers Bag Company) beginning in1900, the town of Bemis rose from the cotton fields of Madison County as a model company town created by the vision of Judson Moss Bemis (1833-1926) and his son, Albert Farwell Bemis (1870-1936). Though the elder Bemis was interested in building a model Manufacturing community as early as 1865, it was his son Albert Bemis, following his gradu- ation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1893 with a degree in civil engineering, who created a model town, with the help of his college contemporaries and the resources of M.I.T. Judson Moss Bemis founded his St. Louis company in 1865, producing cotton bagging and jute sacks for sale. By the 1890s the Bemis Brothers Bag Company had become one of the first American packing companies and one of the nation's earliest multinational corporations. Postwar southern industrialization encouraged the Bemis company to develop a new manufacturing plant in Tennessee. Bemis wanted a mill in the center of a major cotton growing region with its own gin so that the company could buy cotton directly from the farmer and avoid the costs of brokers' fees, ginning, compressing, and shipment. With the new mill located on the Illinois Central Railroad line, the Bemis Company anticipated no additional costs beyond shipment of the final product. The strategy proved enormously successful; the company followed this initial experi- ment with the construction of another bagging mill in 1917 at Bemiston, AI.
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Page 5 and 6: PREFACE After my father, J. O. Wall
Page 7 and 8: This is a dogtrot house like the Wa
Page 9: worldwide surpluses soon after the
Page 13 and 14: showing the soon arrival of another
Page 15 and 16: Naomi’s High School Class - Bemis
Page 17 and 18: J. W. Wallace Family -1950 Back row
Page 19 and 20: Allie & Naomi Wallace at Bemis home
Page 21 and 22: Wallace Family about 1940 Back: Cle
Page 23 and 24: Glenn, Onell, Cleatus, ??? hunting
Page 25 and 26: J. W. Wallace family in front of Na
Page 27 and 28: Onell, Glenn, Cleatus, Bonnie, Naom
Page 29 and 30: J. 0. resigned his publishing house
Page 31 and 32: James Wells Wallace by Marie Wallac
Page 33 and 34: J. W. Wallace Grandkids - Christmas
Page 35 and 36: L. A. & Bonnie Singleton Family - C
Page 37 and 38: Cleatus, Onell, Glenn - Christmas 1
Page 40 and 41: J. W. Wallace Funeral Notes of W. M
Page 42 and 43: cleaning my room, doing my school h
Page 44 and 45: starting the Oak Ridge church, he s
Page 46 and 47: preparing for church, he reminded h
Page 48 and 49: Backporch of Shelby home at 5711 Mo
Page 50 and 51: Letter of recommendation for Faye R
Page 52 and 53: Memories of the Ministry of J. W. W
Page 54 and 55: A. D. Gurley & J. W. Wallace - abou
Page 56 and 57: Application for Ministerial License
Page 58: J. W. Wallace ordination certificat
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First Sunday in front of Tent of Na
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1945 - W. T. Scott assumes the past
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History of West Nashville UPC of Na
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In the meantime, Rev. A. D. Gurley,
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First UPC Orchestra - 1948 Standing
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Many successful revivals were condu
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Note Burning Service Announcement -
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When spring arrived in 1942, we mov
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A year after the revival I married
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Jane Hardwick Young and Alton Young
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West Nashville UPC news paper - 194
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Many life long friendships were for
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Bill Hughes wrote the following mem
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One of the most restful scenes of t
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J.W. Wallace Memorial Plaque in Wes
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Photo dates about 1900 - all the J.
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1941 Chevrolet pictured in front of
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Heritage of J. W. Wallace J. O. Wal
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The following Calvin Holley researc
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4 5 Name: Naomi Catherine Wallace B
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