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During the 1930’s Great Depression there was a program called Relief. It was the foundation for what we now call welfare. This week’s story takes to a family from Milwaukee Wisconsin with Edith Hartman Peterson. When the book We Had Everything But Money was published she lived in Burbank California. Mrs. Peterson would clear about $65 a month which at that time was good. Hell, it was great. Her husband only made $1.25 a day on a farm. She bread and an apple cake.

One day there was a knock at her door. There stood a gentleman who said he was from the inspector’s office. He was there to inspect her kitchen to make sure it was sanitary and fell within the regulations for her to bake food to sell to the public. When she informed him that the baking she did kept her family off of federal relief, he backed down. Before he left he let her know that as long as no one got sick, there would be no problem.

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