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Mountain Dew and Frisco Jack's tin craft cups

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Handmade copper wire hobo cups made from a soup can and a mountain dew can. Frisco Jack is printed on the front of one can. The tin cans most likely originated with hoboes Mountain Dew and Frisco Jack, made with scraps found around a hobo jungle.

"Bums' rush to Britt nears extinction" newspaper article

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Article on the decline in attendance at the Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa. Quotes from Steamtrain Maury.

Letter written to Mountain Dew

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Letter sent to Mountain Dew written by Will Hoover. Discussion over an article written about Britt possibly published by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Good luck coin sent to Mountain Dew

Whiz Comics: Captain Marvel a Hobo?

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Cover image depicts hobo walking along train tracks looks at billboard with Captain Marvel. Billboard text displacts "Is Captain Marvel a hobo?"

"Dead end: retirement next door for hobo Connecticut Slim" article

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Article featuring Connecticut Slim on stories from the road. Publisher/source unknown. Date unknown.

Hobo Cookbook

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Collection of recipes from various hoboes. Release date unknown.

The American Pocket Medical Dictionary, Fifth Edition

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Bound leather book, 15th edition printed in 1934, Contains the pronunciation and definition of all the principal terms used in medicine, surgery, dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, and kindred sciences: with over 60 extensive tables, very…

On the Road songs

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A collection of songs by "Virginia Slim". Release date unknown.