Friday, May 23, 2008

Hard Times for Oyster Planters

New York, 1895

It has been estimated that owing to the depression in the oyster trade there are along the Great South Bay at least 1,000 idle men. The winter has been a bad one in many lines of industrial pursuits.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 12.

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