“ All eyes were on Wall Street, but truth be told, the market crash paled in comparison to the Navarro County drought.”

“The news of Black Tuesday came and went as little more than dry morsels between flapjacks and red-eyed gravy.”

Black Thursday was no different. Margin calls and ticker-talk; it was all a foreign language to the average man of Navarro county. New York, Chicago and any place not adjacent to the dying province could have just as well been another country – another planet.
Suicides headlined newspapers across the globe. Although desperate men (and women) chose gas or bullets; poison or tablets to avoid poverty the stories of men leaping from windows sold more papers and it seemed to pacify the masses, at least for a while.

EIGHT MORE TAKE THE PLUNGE.

The headlines went on and on. Tales of a brutal bearish market where stock prices were plummeting and fortunes were being dissolved. The days grew long and the soup lines grew longer…

From Famine & Fortune (the Sharecropper’s Son) Available on sale at your favorite retailer. 

And psssst Google still has it listed at 98¢

Happy Friday Y’all. 🍻