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$50 In My Pocket - I'm Off To See America (Paperback)
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$50 In My Pocket - I'm Off To See America (Paperback)
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Loot Price R473
Discovery Miles 4 730
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Take a trip with a Danish immigrant as he arrives in New York in
1916 with his $50.00 needed to pass through Ellis Island. Read
Haldor's (Hal's) reaction to seeing the City of New York with the
skyscrapers that he had never envisioned. He is amazed at seeing
the first Negro people he has ever seen. Travel with him to upstate
New York as he tries his hand at farming and then the owner of the
farm sees that he is not a farmer. Mr. Ogden likes him enough to
get him a better job as a chauffeur for a wealthy politician in the
nearby town of Chatham. He is hired to drive a new car called an
Owens-Magnetic and he has to travel back and forth to New York both
to learn to fix it and eventually drive it. He meets interesting
and influential people through the Hon. Louis F. Payn, his boss. He
has the opportunity to travel to Bermuda and work at landscaping
and tending the horses for Mr. Payn. Read what it was like to live
in America in the early 1900's. Experience riding with Hal in a car
from New York to Florida - when there were little to no paved roads
south of Washington, D.C. Experience his excitement and his
loneliness and then pray for him, as he lies near death from
contracting Spanish Influenza. This was a deadly flu that was
killing thousands of young people around him.
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