by Terry Houghland | Apr 8, 2018 | Hobo Lifestyle, Hobos
TRAMPS CAN’T RIDE FREE they are Pretty Indignant at Railroad for Infringing on Their Alleged Rights. There were about 150 summer tourists. tramps or harvest hands, or whatever they call themselves, got into town Saturday over the Milwaukee road with the...
by Terry Houghland | Jul 23, 2017 | Hobo Lifestyle, Hobos
The Denison review. (Denison, Iowa) September 01, 1915, HOBO” JUNGLES SCENE OF SCRAP Young Man Badly Cut Up by Fellow Hobo Sunday Forenoon at Camp Near Northwestern Station GUILTY ONE MAKES ESCAPE Injured Man Taken to Hospital, Where He Is Being Cared for—Says...
by Terry Houghland | Jan 18, 2017 | Hobo Lifestyle, Hobos, News From the past, Uncategorized
The Day book., July 24, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 24 About The Day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917 SKINNING THE HOBO. We should call it skinning, not robbing, the hobo. I mean by hoboes the men who shock and thrash the grain, help build the railroads and all other con...
by Terry Houghland | Apr 5, 2016 | Hobo Lifestyle, Hobos, Resources
The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) May 01, 1913, HOBOES ARE NOT TRAMPS, AS PEOPLE THINK- THEY’RE THE RESULT OF GREED OE CAPITAL BY JANE WHITAKER I am going to tell you of one of the greatest evils inflicted by capital ism upon labor. There are over a million hoboes...
by Terry Houghland | Apr 5, 2016 | Hobo Lifestyle, Hobos, Resources
The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, December 09, 1916, HOBO COLLEGE TO OPEN FIRST SEMESTER SUNDAY NIGHT The International Hobo College will begin its first semester of the 1916-17 college year with a meeting Sunday night, at which many prominent people of the...
by Terry Houghland | Apr 5, 2016 | Hobo Lifestyle, Hobos, Resources
The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) June 09, 1913, Image and text provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL The first number of the “Hobo News, dedicated to the interests ofthe hoboes of America, was published Saturday. The editor of...
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