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the good pay for God knows we need it in Augusta. Gentlemens I
made very effort to come out in Illinois or some other place
where I can live deason. I have payed as much as too dollars &
that I cant get away from here, we can scarcely live in Augusta
not say anything about debt. I wish you gentlemens would asist me
in getting away from here not only my self but some friends or
send an agent threw here I mean agent not some so call agent--or
if you gentlemens see I get a transportation I am real in what I
am saying any kind that a living in. I am twenty years
exspierince in yellow pine lumber willing to do any thing else
that pays gentlemens answer at once. I like to come now to get
settled by winter.

PENSACOLA, FLA., April 23, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ I saw your advice in the Chicago Defender I thought
to wright for farther in fennashion I would be glad to now how I
can get ther I am a laborn man want to get where work is
plentiful & good wedges i want to get in a Christian nise place i
have a good family and car for them I want to come up there to
see the place & then latter on send for family can u send for me
or describe me to some one who will send for me.

ST. LOUIS, April 28, 1917.

_Dear Gentlemens:_ I have been advise through the columns of the
Chicago Defender to get in connection with you as they claim that
you are in position to look after colored labor and help I am
anxious to get a study position in some small villiage or town
near Chicago. I am from Alabama and dont believe in loafing I am
now employed at a firm as porter, packer, asst. shipping clerk
but I cant live on the pay. I am to go to Detroit next Saturday
but if I can hear from you I would rother take your advise.
Please let me hear from you. I was intending to go by Chicago and
call on you but I thought it wise to write because here in St.
Louis they dont like to see a man idle.

_Dear sir:_ I am a reader of the Chicago Defender and enjoy it
very much. I saw in todays defender where labor was wanter
transportation advanced from Chicago. Now I have a good steady
position where I have been working for three years with the
American Sugar refinery but I would like to make a change I know
that I c