Necessity is the Mother … Again

Reader Contribution by Richard Stout

|Published on May 8, 2018

This interesting postcard shows Canadian homesteaders short of finances but long on time and labor using their ingenuity to get a crop threshed in the early 1900s.

Richard Stout, Washington, Iowa

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