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A farm family untouched by depression in 1933

No depression can touch this farm family: all necessities, from food and clothing to tools and machinery, produced by members of Esthonian colony in Northern Wisconsin

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Despite widespread depression in the 1930s, many farm families remained largely untouched, growing and producing their own food, tools, and clothing. The Pays were one such family and this article looks at their life on a farm near Dunfield in Lincoln County.

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"No depression can touch this farm family: all necessities, from food and clothing to tools and machinery, produced by members of Esthonian colony in Northern Wisconsin." Milwaukee Journal. (20 August 1933).