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Henry Schmidt Interview, ca. 1976

1976
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Henry Schmidt was 89 years old and was born in Illinois. He moved to Morris in 1900.In this interview, Henry Schmidt remembers Morris as a town with "19 saloons where everybody drank." He talks about pre-tractor farming and farm prices. He operated a thresher for surrounding farmers. He talks about self-reliance and discusses the dwindling number of family farms and makes some judgements as to its cause.

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