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Youngsters With Older Hobo
Location : San Joaquin Valley, CA
Description : Two youngsters aged 15 and 16 traveling in the company of an older hobo. Here they are returning to the train after having filled some empty whisky bottles with drinking water at the railroad water tower. Said the older one, "He ain't at since yesterday morning." And then "Don't publish my pitcher in the paper. If my paw saw it, he'd beat hell out of me. I'm sposed to be thumbing." Their story was that they were returning from a visit to an uncle's in San Francisco to their home in Southern California, but their grimy appearances revealed they had been riding the freights for some time and traveling companions volunteered that they had come from Arizona. In Fresno that evening town police booked them as vagrants, and along with about fifteen others riding the same freight they were given sixty days. Listed Under:
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