Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1921-02-26
CITY. DAKOTA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 90 1921
CHINESE FAMINE
Extracts From a Letter From Miss Haze
Bailey, dated January 23rd, 1921,
Peking, China

1t is hard to keep narrowing tales out
of letters this year, we see and hear so
much Of suffering caused by the famine
Only this morning we learned through
one OF the Bible women here in the city
of family of mother and four children
now in great distress because he had
/ tuberculosis or some thing which made
! Do impossible to longer pull rcksha, so
he se.ishy Jumped into the river. Now
| his wife has no one even 10 look after
the children while she goes to work
( Perhaps il is better that lie is gone for
/ lac migut have been sick for long time,
I at east he thought So She was making
! a pair OF shoes for some one and he tuck
ed one unfinished one into his belt SO
she could identify him when he should
be found. However, when that happen
ed she was afraid to claim the body be-
cause il she dld the police would not
bury the body bat she would haye to
| buy coffin which is almost as bad as
doing so in America. They are very
/ heavy, made OF thick hewn logs and a.
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