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In the letter, Bess shows her gratitude for the progress science and medicine have made in the past decades. The discoveries were only part of the advances, the Establishment of the Food and Drug Administration helped regulate the manufacturing of medications and required new medication to be approved by the FDA before it could be sold to the public. The most notable made in medicine was the discovery of Penicillin in 1928. Penicillin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is used to treat many diseases like pneumonia, although it would not be commercially available until 1940. Bess's ex-husband worked as a pharmacist also referred to as a druggist. Bess's ex-husband died in 1922 alongside his then-wife Mollie Mollie. They died a day apart.
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The high unemployment rate in random with high gas prices made owning a car during the Depression pointless. Seldom were the people who could afford to keep and operate their gasoline-fueled cars. Many people owned cars but could not drive them, but they still needed transportation to move about as well as a need to transport items. Car owners paid a pretty penny for their cars years ago, so they knew they could not scrap the whole car just because they did not have money for gasoline. As people began to ditch their cars, they began relying on horses, ox, and mules to transport themselves and other items. The unused cars were turned into wagons to carry their owners or crops. A farm animal or two alone can not pull an average car, so car owners started stripping their cars down to the frames. Windows, windshields, and engines were some of the car parts removed so that the car would weigh less and be able to be pulled by the farm animals. These cars turned wagons were named Hoover Wagons.
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The Bennett Buggy and the Hoover Wagon - Back in Time - General Highway History - Highway History - Federal Highway Administration. (n.d.). https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/back0709.cfm
Across America, over 20,000 schools closed during the great depression. Attending school was a privilege for children living during the Depression. School-aged children stayed at home or worked to help their families earn money. Legislation passed in the 1920s restricted the use of child labor. Children would collect and sell scrap metal or whatever odd job they could find. For students who could still attend school, getting to school could pose another challenge since many districts cut bus services. Another driving force for school closures was the lack of funds. Schools did not have enough money to keep teachers on their payroll. Schools that were still operating would cut costs by shortening the academic year, borrowing the curriculum taught, and making the student bring their own some public schools required students to pay tuition to attend. Some school districts in the North integrated schools, as a way to cut costs. Schools in the South did not integrate schools instead drastically cutting funding for Black schools.
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“A Child’s Life in the 1930s Compared to Today | Children's Theatre Company,” September 28, 2021. https://childrenstheatre.org/2021/09/28/a-childs-life-in-the-1930s-compared-to-today/.
ipl.org. “The Effects Of Education On African Americans In The 1930s,” May 31, 2021. https://www.ipl.org/essay/The-Effects-Of-Education-On-African-Americans-P35JF9B428TT.
Lynch, Matthew. “Comprehending How The Great Depression Influenced American Education - The Edvocate.” The Edvocate, September 2, 2016. https://www.theedadvocate.org/comprehending-great-depression-influenced-american-education/.
“Public Schools in North Carolina in the Great Depression | NCpedia,” n.d. https://www.ncpedia.org/public-schools-great-depression.
A project taken on by the descendants of the original Pedens who immigrated from Ireland and Scotland. The book is over 650 pages long and details the origins of the Pedens and the different houses that were eventually formed. The books contain thousands of descendants of the Pedens, birthdates, marriage dates, death dates, names of spouses, occupations, addresses, and children's names. All of that information is included for each person listed in the book. The book can be accessed for free at the Library of Congress.
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“The Pedens of America; Being a Summary of the Peden, Alexander, Morton, Morrow Reunion 1899, and an Outline History of the Ancestry and Descendants of John Peden and Margaret McDill; Scotland, Ireland, America, 1768-1900 " https://archive.org/details/pedensofamericab00hewe/page/n25/mode/2up
