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Happy Birthday Eugene Debs

  Originally posted November 10, 2014   “Remember, Remember, the fifth of November!”   The old school-child chant of course refers to Guy Fawkes, sometimes dubbed as “the only honest man ever to enter the Parliament.” This date–celebrating the foiling … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Eugene Debs

“Remember, Remember, the fifth of November!”     The old school-child chant of course refers to Guy Fawkes, sometimes dubbed as “the only honest man ever to enter the Parliament.” This date–celebrating the foiling of the 17th century plot to … Continue reading

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Panic on the Farm- Part One

  Summer 1894: During the two years following his ride into Everett, picked up by an accommodating farm couple, Jimmy had run into the farm wife on a train–finally learning her and husband’s names. In spring of 1894, the nation … Continue reading

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