This is an iHeart Podcast. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick.
He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus, and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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But do you know that almost half of the homes on the Navajo Reservation do not have clean running water? With your support, St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School is ready to give water to Navajo families.
So we invite you to help provide this precious gift of life to those in need. Contrary to many average Americans, Navajo families survive on just 10 gallons of water per day. You can help support St. Bonaventure's water delivery program by going to stbonaventuremission.org. This is Leigh Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star.
and the American people. Up next, another story from our regular contributor and friend of the show, joineal kidney. Joy listens to us on 1040 WHO in Des Moines. phenomenal signal. in the middle of the Midwest.
And she's the author of Leora's Dexter Stories. The book chronicles her grandmother's experiences and her family's too during the Great Depression in rural Iowa. Today, she shares a story about the kinds of ways her family made money. during those rough years. Let's get into the story.
Take it away, Joy. Doris Wilson and Betty Neal, in their high school senior pictures, looked like they came from well-to-do families. But they both missed the first two weeks at the beginning of their senior year to work at the local canning factory. In order to earn enough money to pay for school clothes, books, Class rings. which costs six dollars and fifty cents.
and senior pictures. Betty's grandfather, O.S. Neal, age 67, contracted with Iowa farmers to grow so much corn. He also checked the fields and hired the workers for the canning factory. O.
S. and Nellie Neal. were good neighbors of Claven Leora Wilson. The summer of 1935, the canning factory was getting ready for sweet corn. If only it would rain.
mister Neal had just told Leora that if it didn't rain that week, there wouldn't be any canning. In spite of the 100-degree heat, It rained twice in one week. When Doris asked Mr. Neal about jobs, He told her that she'd get a job all right, and her dad too.
So Claive and Leora, and also Betty, got jobs canning sweet corn. When the town whistle blew early in the morning, while Doris was still asleep. Clave walked to the factory east of Dexter along the railroad tracks to set things up. They worked long hours, from eight in the morning until midnight or after. Then Claib and others stayed to wash up the canning machinery in the floors.
scalding them with a hose, and taking up to four hours longer. Doris soon had blisters on her hands from shucking corn. By the end of August it's cool at night. and her feet and legs became so wet. Leora rigged up a sort of lap robe for her.
with an oil cloth bag around a gunny sack. that she put her feet and legs into, then sit on the top part of it. Other workers made similar contraptions. which they hung in the warm engine room to dry overnight. Claib's job also included weighing the sugar.
salt, and cornstarch. mixing it and pouring it in the cookers. He kept the sieves clean and the machinery running. Leora said the place was a noisy sloppy place. Doris hated it when the farmers arrived at the plant with a load of corn late in the day, when it was getting dark.
But corn has to be processed right away or it will spoil. If not, it would heat up and the cans could bulge and explode.
So they worked as long as it was corn to get ready. and they stayed until the work was done. Doris's younger siblings took turns taking meals to her and her dad. and a late lunch for their Dad when he worked. extra late to get ready for the next day.
Doris turned 17 on August 30th. She'd just gotten her first pay envelope for a week's work. six dollars and fifty five cents. twenty cents an hour. That paid for her class ring.
Doris' senior year was off to a good start. Money was hard to come by during the Depression. Clay Wilson worked on part-time government WPA jobs.
sometimes doing rogue work. later helping to remodel the Dexter library. The two oldest Wilson brothers, Delbert and Donald, and joined the Navy after high school graduation. Donald had re-enlisted, but Delbert thought he could earn enough in California to send money home. Things were tough there, too.
So he ended up hitching back to Iowa. The Wilson twins, Dale and Darlene, would start their senior year the fall of 1938. Darlene had a regular babysitting job. Dale mowed grass for neighbors and whatever work he could find. to help pay for extra expenses his senior year.
A unique opportunity for some cash was announced that Dallas County would pay bounty on starlings and crows until July 1st. a knuckle per foot, or ten cents per bird. Starlings were considered pests, causing damage and spreading disease. The Wilsons had seen a flock of about two thousand of the dark speckled birds. like a big swarm of bees.
their rock is screeching like rusty hinges. Dale had already bagged thirty-six darlings by June third. He and his brothers pooled their cash and bought a used bicycle for ten dollars.
So he biked to Adel, sixteen miles away, with bird feet as proof. He brought home three dollars and sixty cents. Four days later, Dale headed to Adal with evidence from forty eight starlings and three crows. His mother was so relieved, when he returned home. this time with five dollars and ten cents.
Halfway through June, Verification from another 55 starlings. Netted Dale five dollars and fifty cents. Three days later, He brought home $4.70 cash. Finally, Dale made his last trek to Adel. $25.40 in all.
for ridding the area of two hundred and fifty four bird pests. They'll also got in shape. for sports during those five thirty two mile trips. on a secondhand one speed bike. Mom, what size shoes do you wear?
Dale parked the Big Sears robuck catalogue on the kitchen table.
Now, Dale, you're not gonna spend your hard-earned money on shoes for me. Yes, I am. Dale had noticed the holes in the soles of her shoes. that she cut cardboard to fit in them. Leora said that his generosity nearly made her cry.
Sturdy women's shoes cost about $3. or thirty starlings. And there was still enough money for the senior expenses of a determined seventeen year old. Even during the Great Depression, Joy Neil Kidney's Stories of Rural Iowa During the Great Depression. Here.
on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here, and I'm inviting you to help Al American Story celebrate this country's 250th birthday coming soon. If you want to help inspire countless others to love America like we do and want to help us bring the inspiring and important stories told here about a good and beautiful country, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to OurAmerican Stories. Go to ouramericanstories.com and click the donate button. Any amount helps.
Go to ouramericanstories.com and give. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bone Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there. How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick.
He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool. He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing?
He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now, wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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Everyday moments can become opportunities for someone with bad intentions, whether you're a parent, teacher, coach, or neighbor. Check in. Ask questions. Stay connected. Blue Campaign is a national awareness initiative that provides resources to help recognize suspected instances of human trafficking.
Learn the signs and how to report at dhs.gov/slash blue campaign. Get ready to power up your play with Nintendo Switch 2. Power up the visuals with 4K support and a bigger, more vivid screen. Power of the fun with exclusive new games like Mario Kart World. And Donkey Kong Bonanza.
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But do you know that almost half of the homes on the Navajo Reservation do not have clean running water? With your support, St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School is ready to give water to Navajo families.
So we invite you to help provide this precious gift of life to those in need. Contrary to many average Americans, Navajo families survive on just 10 gallons of water per day. You can help support St. Bonaventure's water delivery program by going to stbonaventuremission.org. This is an iHeartPodcast.
