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Box-folder 2 / 4a

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Diary (re Helena, wheat prices, World War II, movies, books read, business trip to Chicago and New York, visit with Burton K. Wheeler in Washington, D.C., trip to Canada, planting of crops, rationing, flax crop, traveling around Montana, elections, defeat of Jeannette Rankin, selling scrap iron, purchasing war bonds, social activities, summary of the year, etc.), 1942

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Diaries. 1929-1951. 1 linear foot. James V. Bennett began his diaries in 1929, and continued making entries on a regular basis until his death in 1951. The earliest diaries were Bennett's daily records of weather as related to dryland farming in Daniels County; financial accounts; ranching operations; maintenance of farm equipment; wheat, barley, and rye market futures; his stock market investments; and miscellany. In the later diaries, he wrote about his wider political interests and...
Dates: 1942